- 918
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Hornby
Meaning & Origins
English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from any of various places in northern England so called. Those in Lancashire and near Bedale in North Yorkshire are from the Old Norse personal name Horni ‘horn’ + Old Norse býr ‘farm’, ‘settlement’. One in the parish of Great Smeaton, North Yorkshire, is recorded in Domesday Book as Horenbodebi and probably has as its first element an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements horn ‘horn’ + boði ‘messenger’.
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Nicknames & variations
Horn, Horne, Horner, Hornsby, Horning, Hornbeck, Hornung, Hornberger, Hornback, Hornbuckle
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 918
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Idaho
- has the most people named Hornby per capita
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