Sorbo Family History
Sorbo Name Meaning
Italian: from sorbo ‘sorb apple’ the fruit of the true service tree Sorbus domestica edible when very ripe. The surname may have arisen as a topographic name for someone who lived where service trees grew or as a habitational name from any of numerous places called with this word such as Sorbo Serpico (Avellino) or Sobro San Basile (Catazaro). Norwegian (Sørbø): habitational name from any of ten or more farms mostly in southwestern Norway named in Old Norse as Saurbœ´r from saurr ‘mire mud’ + bœ´r ‘farm settlement’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022