Loseby
English edit
Etymology edit
Habitational surname from the village of Lowesby, in Leicestershire, from Old English hlōse (“pigsty”) + Old Norse býr (“settlement, village”).
Proper noun edit
Loseby (plural Losebys)
- A surname.
Statistics edit
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Loseby is the 17257th most common surname in England, belonging to 284 individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Loseby”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 462.