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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern English : habitational name from Lazenby in Redcar and Cleveland or Lazonby in Cumbria, both named in Old Norse as ‘freedman’s farm’, or ‘Freedmen’s farm’, from leysingi ‘freedman’ (also used as a nickname and personal name; see Leising) + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.

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