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newborn Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from Newbourn in Suffolk or Newburn in Tyne and Wear (formerly part of Northumberland), both named with Old English niwe ‘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’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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newborn Family Facts

Distribution of newborn Families in the US in 1920
Number of newborn families
 14-25
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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