The hornby Surname
hornby Name Meaning and History
English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from any of various
places in northern England so called. Those in Lancashire and near
Bedale in North Yorkshire are from the Old Norse personal name
Horni ‘horn’ + Old Norse býr ‘farm’,
‘settlement’. One in the parish of Great Smeaton, North Yorkshire, is
recorded in Domesday Book as Horenbodebi and probably has as
its first element an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements
horn ‘horn’ + boði ‘messenger’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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