as a Last Name
- 6,871
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Overby
Meaning & Origins
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’.
| 5,129th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,871
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Dakota
- has the most people named Overby per capita
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