Scottish: habitational name from places named Woodburn in Ayrshire,
Kincardineshire, and Midlothian, and in Northumberland, all named from
Old English wudu ‘wood’ + burna ‘stream’, i.e. a stream
flowing through a wood.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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