Auberville is located on the northern Normandy coast some 8 km east by north-east ofCabourg and 13 km south-west ofDeauville. Access to the commune is by road D513 fromHoulgate in the west which passes through the village and continues north-east toVillers-sur-Mer. The D163 branches off the D513 in the village and goes south toBranville. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Les Genets, Les Bruyeres, and Le Manoir. The north of the commune is forested along the coast with slopes down to the beach while the rest of the commune is farmland.[4]
The name was attested in the formOsbertivilla in 1082.[5] It came from the GermanicanthroponymOsbert[5] or alternatively from the ScandinavianOsbern[6] and the old Frenchville (from theLatinvilla) in its original sense of "rural domain".
^abAlbert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing,Etymological Dictionary of place names in France, Larousse, Paris, 1963(in French)
^René Lepelley,Etymological dictionary of names of communes in Normandy, Éditions Charles Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau, 1996ISBN2905461802, BnF 36174448w, p. 52(in French)
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