Harben Family History
- Harben Name Meaning
- English: of uncertain derivation. The 18th-century parish registers of Marske, North Yorkshire, record the surname Hartburn with the variant Harburn; Harben may be a further variant of this. If so, its origin is probably topographic or habitational, from East Hartburn in Stockton-on-Tees or Hartburn in Northumberland, both named from Old English heorot ‘hart’ + burna ‘steam’. However, this conjecture is not borne out by the distribution of the surname a century later, when it occurs chiefly in Cambridgeshire and London and also with a significant presence in the Channel Islands, perhaps suggesting that it could be a variant of Harpin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 26,996 Historical Documents with Harben on Ancestry
- 6,354 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,900 Census and Voter Lists
- 628 Military Records
- 807 Immigration Records
- 13,307 Member Trees
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Number of Harben families
 23 - 43  8 - 22 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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