Tasmanian Town Names

Derived from the surname Mowbray, which in turn comes from the habitational Norman surname Montbrai, composed of the elements mont, meaning "hill," and brai, "mud."

Britney Spears put this old-fashioned surname name back on the map when she chose it as her son Sean's middle name, which the family uses as his first.

Associated with the ancient Rosetta stone, this is also the pretty Italian pet form of Rosa.