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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian (Øye) : habitational name from any of about twenty-five farmsteads, chiefly in Møre and Trøndelag, so named from øy ‘island’.
  • Japanese : Alternate Romanized spelling of Oe. The -ye spelling represents a sound no longer used in modern Japanese.

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