English: habitational name from a place so called; there is one in
Cambridgeshire and another in Northamptonshire, both named with Old
English beorn ‘warrior’ (genitive plural beorna) or the
Old English personal name Beorna + well(a) ‘stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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