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Crosby
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Origin Of The Surname Crosby
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Meaning Of The Surname Crosby
From the Town by the Cross
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Interesting
Facts About
Crosby
Crosby is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Scandinavian ‘kross’ meaning a cross, combined with ‘byr’, a settlement, to mean ‘the town by the cross’. |
Crosby Statistics
Crosby is the number 1396 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 7,667 share the surname Crosby in the UK.
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