Sorbo Family History

Italian: from sorbo ‘sorb apple’ the fruit of the true service tree Sorbus domestica edible when very ripe. The surname may have arisen as a topographic name for someone who lived where service trees grew or as a habitational name from any of numerous places called with this word such as Sorbo Serpico (Avellino) or Sobro San Basile (Catazaro).

Norwegian (Sørbø): habitational name from any of ten or more farms mostly in southwestern Norway named in Old Norse as Saurbœ´r from saurr ‘mire, mud’ + bœ´r ‘farm, settlement’.