Last name origins & meanings:
- Scottish and English: habitational name from any of various
places in southwestern Scotland and northern England that are named
with Old Norse kross ‘cross’ + býr ‘farm’,
‘settlement’.
- Irish: Scottish and English surname (see 1
above) adopted by bearers of Gaelic Mac an Chrosáin (see
McCrossen).
- The name of the Irish family of Crosbie is ultimately derived from
providing the chief bards to the O’Mores, Chiefs of Leix
(crosán means ‘bard’, ‘satirist’). Pádraic Mac Crosáin
or Mac An Chrosáin took the name Patrick Crosbie in about
1583.
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