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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Ormsby in Lincolnshire and North Yorkshire, or Ormesby in Norfolk, all named from the genitive case of the Old Norse personal name Ormr (see Orme 1) + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.

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