Mowbray

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Mulberry

Etymology

English habitational surname of Norman origin, from the village of Montbray, in Normandy. The name of the village comes from Old French mont (“hill”) + brai (“mud, slime”).

Proper noun

Mowbray (countable and uncountable, plural Mowbrays)

1. A surname.
2. An English barony, now combined with Seagrave and Stourton.
3. A place name:
   1. A coastal locality in the Shire of Douglas, Queensland, Australia.
   2. A suburb of Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
   3. A southern suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.

Derived terms

• Melton Mowbray

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Mowbray is the 16926^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1681 individuals. Mowbray is most common among White (91.14%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Mowbray”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 628.