Newborn
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Frequency: (371)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. English: habitational name from Newbourn in Suffolk or Newburn in Tyne and Wear (formerly part of Northumberland), both named with Old English nīwe ‘new’ + burna ‘stream’, perhaps denoting a stream that had changed its course.
2. Possibly an Americanized form of German Neugebo(h)ren, Neugeborn (a nickname meaning ‘newborn’).
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