Czech and Slovak (Dobrý): nickname from Czech dobrý
‘good’, ‘honest’, ‘faithful’.
French: patronymic from the
personal name Obry, a spelling variant of Aubrey.
English: altered form of the French surname Dobrée,
which was taken to England by a Huguenot family whose ancestor had
fled to Guernsey after the St. Bartholomew Massacre in 1572.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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