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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived near a stream, Middle English atte borne ‘at the bourn’. The preposition may alternatively be Anglo-Norman French a, likewise meaning ‘at’.
  • Samuel Aborn came to MA from England in 1636; his name is also spelled Eborne.

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