Conybeare

English

Etymology

Perhaps a habitational surname from a lost or unidentified place in Devonshire, from either cony or Old English cyning (“king”) + Old English bearu (“grove, wood”).

Proper noun

Conybeare (plural Conybeares)

1. A surname from Old English.

Descendants

• → Translingual: conybeari, conybearii

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Conybeare is the 26392^nd most common surname in England, belonging to 149 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Conybeare”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 363.