Bye Family History

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a bend, for example in a river, from Middle English bye ‘bend’ (from Old English byge, a derivative of būgan ‘to bow’). Occasionally it may be from an Old English personal name of obscure origin.

Norwegian: habitational name from any of 25 farms named By from Old Norse býr ‘farm’. Compare Bee.

Swedish: variant of By, a habitational name from any of numerous places called By from Old Swedish by ‘village, farm, town’.