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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname from Middle English hobi ‘hobby’, a small falcon, or from the same word denoting a small horse.
  • English : habitational name from Hoby in Leicestershire, named with Old English hōh ‘spur of a hill’ + Old Norse býr ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.

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