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Northbrook Surname Meaning

From one or more of the numerous minor places called Northbrook or Norbrook, such as Northbrook in Kirtlington (Oxon), Northbrook Place in Godalming (Surrey), Northbrook in Market Lavington (Wilts), Northbrook in Fulbrook (Warwicks), Northbrook in Goring (Sussex), Northbrook Park in Topsham (Devon), and North Brook End in Steeple Morden (Cambs).

The place-names derive from Old English norð ‘north, northern’ + brōc ‘stream, brook’ or Middle English north + broke.

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016


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Average Northbrook life expectancy in 2000 was 62 years. This was lower than the general public life expectancy which was 75.

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