Last name: COSBY
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COSBY : This last name is indexed 26,746 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
COSBY : English: habitational name from a place in Leicestershire named Cosby from an Old English personal name Cossa + Old Norse býr ‘farm settlement’.
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