The washburn Surname
washburn Name Meaning and History
Northern English: topographic name for someone living on the banks
of the Washburn river in West Yorkshire, so named from the Old English
personal name Walc + Old English burna ‘stream’. The
river name is first recorded as Walke(s)burna in the early 12th
century.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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