Oborn Family History

English (Somerset): habitational name chiefly from Oborne in Dorset or perhaps occasionally from Howbourne Farm in Hadlow Down Sussex, Woburn in Bedfordshire, Woburn Park in Surrey, or Wooburn in Buckinghamshire. The placenames derive from Old English wōh ‘twisted crooked’ + burna ‘spring stream’ except Wooburn in Buckinghamshire which is of uncertain etymology.

English (of Norman origin): perhaps from the Middle English personal name Obern, an Anglo-Norman French form of Osbern (see Osborne).