Moberley
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Moberley
Frequency: (112)
(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 Mobberley in Cheshire, named in Old English as ‘clearing with a fortified site where assemblies are held’, from (ge)mōt ‘meeting’, ‘assembly’ + burh ‘enclosure’, ‘fortification’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
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