English (mainly Yorkshire): habitational name from any of
various places, for example in Durham and Yorkshire, so called from
Old English scir ‘bright’ + burna ‘stream’. (In
southern English dialects, burna became modern bourne,
and Sherborne in Dorset is one of several places so called.)
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