Honeybourne

English

Alternative forms

• (surname): Honeybone

Etymology

From Old English huniġ (“honey”) + burna (“stream, brook”).

Proper noun

Honeybourne (countable and uncountable, plural Honeybournes)

1. A village and civil parish in Wychavon district, Worcestershire, England (OS grid ref SP1144).
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Honeybourne is the 24334^th most common surname in England, belonging to 169 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Honeybourne”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 198.