First name origin & meaning:
Old English: Westerly direction
First name variations: Weston, Westbrook, Westcott, Weston, Westleigh, West
Last name origins & meanings:
- English: habitational name from any of various places named
Westby, for example in Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and West Yorkshire,
from Old Norse vestr ‘west’ + býr ‘settlement’.
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of twenty or more
farmsteads, mainly in southeastern Norway, named in Old Norse as
Vestbýr, a compound Old Norse vestr ‘west’ +
býr ‘settlement’. Compare 1.
- Swedish: habitational
or ornamental name of the same etymology as 2 above.
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