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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places named Westbury, for example in Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Shropshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire, from Old English west ‘west’ + byrig, dative case of burh ‘fortress’, ‘fortified town’.

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