The husband Surname
husband Name Meaning and History
English: occupational name for a peasant farmer, from Middle
English husband ‘tiller of the soil’, ‘husbandman’. The term
(late Old English husbonda, Old Norse
húsbóndi), a compound of hús ‘house’ +
bóndi (see Bond) originally described a man who was
head of his own household, and this may have been the sense in some of
the earliest examples of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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