Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from places in Staffordshire and Worcestershire named Hanbury, from Old English (æt ðǣm) hēan byrig ‘(at the) high fortress’. In some cases it may also be from Handborough in Oxfordshire, which is named from the Old English byname Hagena or Hana + beorg ‘hill’.
- Irish (mainly County Galway and County Clare) : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAinmhire ‘descendant of Ainmhire’, a personal name meaning ‘very wild’, ‘warlike’.