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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Albourne in West Sussex, named from Old English alor ‘alder’ + burna ‘stream’, or possibly from Aldbourne in Wiltshire, which is named with Old English Ealding ‘(people) associated with Ealda’ + burna ‘stream’.

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