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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Winterburn in North Yorkshire or any of several places, notably in Dorset and Wiltshire, originally a river name from Old English winter ‘winter’ + burna ‘stream’, i.e. a stream or river that flowed strongly in winter but more or less dried up in summer.

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