Given name & surname
Thornbury
“thorn”
Thornbury is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Thornbury goes back to Old English þorn, meaning “thorn.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Thornbury’s family of names
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