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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from any of various places, for example in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Surrey, so called from Old English norð ‘north’ + burh ‘fortress’, ‘fortified town’.

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