15,876 Global Hamby Family Members

Hamby Family History

Recorded as Hambie and Hamby, this is a locational surname of Danish-Viking pre 8th century origins. It derives from a place in Lincolnshire which is now 'lost', although presumably in the Middle Ages was large enough to have created a surname which has spread widely. Some five thousand British surnames derive from such places, of which the only reminder today is the surname, often in many variant spellings. The name means the farm (bi) on the flat land (hamm), although given that Lincolnshire is almost entirely flat suggests that there may have been a more precise meaning.