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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : of uncertain origin; probably a variant of Ingleby, a habitational name from either of two places called Ingleby, in Derbyshire or Lincolnshire, or from Ingleby Arncliffe or Ingleby Greenhow, both in North Yorkshire. All are named with the Old Scandinavian personal name Englar + Old Norse býr ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.

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