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Risby

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Lincolnshire, Suffolk, and East Yorkshire, so named from Old Norse hrís ‘brushwood’ + býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’.

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