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The Osborne family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Osborne families were found in United Kingdom in 1891. In 1840 there were 52 Osborne families living in New York. This was about 18% of all the recorded Osborne's in USA.
The surname Osborne is derived from the Old Norse personal name Asbjorn, meaning divine bear. Alternatively the name was Anglicized as Osbeorn and Osbern from the Old English word "be (o)rn" which meant "god warrior." Osbernus was presbyter in record (1097-1107), and Osbern was capellanus (chaplain) from 1107 to 1124.
The most commonly-observed ancestry found in people with the surname Osborne is British & Irish, which comprises 56.5% of all ancestry found in people with the surname. The next two most common ancestries are French & German (22.4%) and Scandinavian (3.7%).
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The last name Osborne is primarily found in The Americas, where 62 percent of Osborne are found; 60 percent are found in North America and 60 percent are found in Anglo-North America. It is also the 97,459 th most frequent first name worldwide. It is borne by 4,896 people.
Osborne / ˈɒzbɔːrn /, along with Osbourne, Osbern, Osborn and Usborne, is an English name cognate with, and possibly influenced by the Old Norse Ásbjørn. The English Os (see Ós) and the Norse Ás (see Aesir) mean God, while bjørn means bear in Norse.
The surname Osborne comes from the Old Norse or Viking personal name Asbjorn, comprised of as meaning “god,” and bjorn meaning “bear.” The word “god bear” may have been a reference to the colossal Ursus spelaeus, an ancient bear that once roamed the plains of Europe after the last ice age.
Historically, surnames evolved as a way to sort people into groups - by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption, and even physical characteristics (like red hair). Many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland.