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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian (Øverby) : habitational name from any of some twenty farmsteads, chiefly in southeastern Norway, named Øverby, from Old Norse Øfribýr, a compound of øfri ‘upper’ + býr ‘farmstead’.
  • Danish : habitational name from any of several places so named.

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