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busby Name Meaning and History

English: habitational name from a place in North Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Buschebi, from Old Norse buskr ‘bush’, ‘shrub’ or an Old Norse personal name Buski + býr ‘homestead’, ‘village’, or from some other place so called.

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Distribution of busby Families in the US in 1920
Number of busby families
 105-207
 36-104
 1-35
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