Winterburn Family History

English (Yorkshire): habitational name from any of various places called with Old English winter-burna ‘winter stream’ for a stream which only flows or flows at a faster rate during the winter and more or less dries up in summer such as Winterburn in Gargrave (Yorkshire), Winterbourne (Berkshire, Gloucestershire), Winterbourne Bassett (Wiltshire), or one of thirteen parishes named Winterborne in Dorset including Winterborne Abbas, Winterborne Monkton, and Winterborne Zelstone.

In most cases, the form Winterburn can be associated with Winterburn in Gargrave (Yorkshire), though no such association can be made between other surname forms and corresponding placenames.