Etymology

Airey

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Today it means: A surname from Old Norse. Full definition →

Old Norse eyrará
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromeyrará“gravel-bank stream”
  2. English todayAirey

Habitational surname from a minor place in Cumbria, from Old Norse eyrará (“gravel-bank stream”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.