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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from Anlaby in Humberside, recorded 1234 as Anlaweby but in Domesday Book as Umloueby. The place is named with the Old Norse personal name Anláfr, Óláfr (see Oliff) + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.

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