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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Maltby in Cleveland, Lincolnshire, and North and South Yorkshire, or Mautby in Norfolk, all named with the Old Norse byname Malti ‘sharp’, ‘bitter’ + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.

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