Boy name origins & meanings
- English : From the bright, shiny stream
Family name origins & meanings
- English (mainly Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Durham and Yorkshire, so called from Old English scīr ‘bright’ + burna ‘stream’. (In southern English dialects, burna became modern bourne, and Sherborne in Dorset is one of several places so called.)
- Americanized form of French Charbon (see Jarboe) or Charbonneau.