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Origin Of The Surname Hepburn
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Meaning Of The Surname Hepburn
From the Town with the High Burial Site
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Interesting
Facts About
Hepburn
Hepburn is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English ‘heah’ meaning high, combined with ‘byrgen’ meaning a burial site. Towns with this name would have been built near to a hill with a burial ground on top or similar. Audrey Hepburn the English actress is a famous bearer of this surname. |
Hepburn Statistics
Hepburn is the number 1347 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 7,823 share the surname Hepburn in the UK.
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