Albro
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Frequency: (627)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
English: habitational name from places called Aldborough (in Norfolk and North Yorkshire) or Aldbrough (in East and North Yorkshire), or possibly a variant of Albury. All of these places were named with Old English eald ‘old’ + burh ‘stronghold’.
FOREBEARS: A John Albro came to New England from England in 1634 and settled in Rhode Island in 1638.
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