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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Fortified town

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Greater Manchester (formerly in Cheshire) called Warburton, from the Old English female personal name Wǣrburh (composed of the elements wǣr ‘pledge’ + burh ‘fortress’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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