Ditchburn

English

Alternative forms

• Dutchburn

Etymology

Habitational surname from a place near Alnwick, in Northumberland, from Old English dīċ (“trench, moat”) + burna (“stream”).

Proper noun

Ditchburn (plural Ditchburns)

1. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Ditchburn is the 5577^th most common surname in England, belonging to 1267 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Ditchburn”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 469.