Northern English and Scottish: habitational name from
Hebron, or Hebburn in County Durham, so named from Old English
heah ‘high’ + byrgen ‘burial mound’, ‘tumulus’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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