The story
- Old English · derived fromhyll“hill”
- English todayHilburn
Habitational surname from a now lost place, from Old English hyll (“hill”) + burne (“brook, stream”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishhyll all →
hillHiltonRoswellbrillCantrellPendleColeshillHillhouseSunninghillBrickhillHildenboroughBishop's HullPenhillPinnelhill
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.