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Surname Etymology and Meaning of MILBOURNE

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(origin: Local) The mill brook, from Miln, a mill, and borne or bourne, a brook.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

English: habitational name from places in Northumbria and Wiltshire, named in Old English as ‘mill stream’ (see Milburn).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)