Last name: OVERBY
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OVERBY : This last name is indexed 10,821 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
OVERBY : 1: Norwegian (Øverby): habitational name from any of some twenty farmsteads chiefly in southeastern Norway named Øverby from Old Norse Øfribýr a compound of øfri ‘upper’ + býr ‘farmstead’.2: Danish: habitational name from any of several places so named same meaning as 1 above.
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- Spain (3)
- Switzerland (2)
- Ireland (2)
- Mexico (2)
- Russian Federation (2)
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