Etymology

Owenby

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

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The story

Habitational surname from various places in Lincolnshire named with the Old Norse personal name Auðun + býr (“settlement”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.