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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Midlands) : unexplained; perhaps a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
  • Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in eastern Norway, named from mos ‘(bog) moss’ + by ‘farm’.

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