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Origin Of The Surname Newby
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Meaning Of The Surname Newby
From the New Farm
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Interesting
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Newby
Newby is a locational surname, originating from one of any 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 Old English ‘newe’ meaning new, combined with ‘by’, farm, to mean ‘New Farm’. Because of this the surname may also have been used as a topographical surname given to a person living at the new farm. |
Newby Statistics
Newby is the number 1639 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 6,354 share the surname Newby in the UK.
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