Feuerborn Family History

probably a topographic name for someone living near a spring or a well used for fighting fires, from Middle High German viur ‘fire’ + born ‘spring’. alternatively, perhaps a respelling of Feuerbaum, which is either a Rhenish nickname for a tall man or a topographic name for someone who lived by a juniper, Middle High German viurboum.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press