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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Fishbourne in Sussex and the Isle of Wight or Fishburn in Durham, all named from Old English fisc ‘fish’ + burna ‘stream’.
  • In some cases, possibly a translation of Fischbach.

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