Leybourne

English

Etymology

From Old English lēah (“clearing, glade”) + burna (“stream, spring, fountain”).

Proper noun

Leybourne (countable and uncountable, plural Leybournes)

1. A village and civil parish in Tonbridge and Malling district, Kent, England.
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Leybourne is the 13590^th most common surname in England, belonging to 399 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Leybourne”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 431.