Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Newbourn in Suffolk or Newburn in Tyne and Wear (formerly part of Northumberland), both named with Old English nīwe ‘new’ + burna ‘stream’, perhaps denoting a stream that had changed its course.
- Possibly an Americanized form of German Neugebo(h)ren, Neugeborn (a nickname meaning ‘newborn’).