Lightbourn Surname

266,624th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1,466 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Bahamas
Highest density in:
Turks and Caicos Islands

Lightbourn Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Lightbourn.' Probably there are several spots so called in Lancashire. A suburb of my old parish (Ulverston, North Lancashire) is called Lightburne, the beck or burn flowing alongside (v.

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Lightbourn Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Bahamas8491:46197
United States4601:787,95460,928
Turks and Caicos Islands781:44084
Bermuda291:2,251365
Mexico231:5,396,79230,197
Canada161:2,302,849139,666
Dominican Republic41:2,608,23320,941
England31:18,572,686338,250
Jamaica21:1,434,97411,081
Puerto Rico11:3,550,1399,109
United States Virgin Islands11:110,3756,934
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England441:553,98629,025
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States281:1,793,52492,026

Lightbourn Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Lightbourn.' Probably there are several spots so called in Lancashire. A suburb of my old parish (Ulverston, North Lancashire) is called Lightburne, the beck or burn flowing alongside (v. Burn). With the corrupted Lightbound, compare Simmonds for Simmons, or rib and for ribbon. The ri, of course, is an I excrescence. That Lightbown and Lightbowne are variants of Lightbourn is proved below, although proof is not needed. There is no representative of any of the forms in my London Directory (1870). It is well confined to Lancashire.

Roger Lightborn, of Caton, 1593: Lancashire Wills at Richmond.

Robert Lightbourne, of Eccles, 1598: Wills at Chester.

William Lightbourne, of Bolton-le- Moors, 1614: ibid.

In the next generation the name is written Lightbowne:

James Lightbowne, of Manchester, 1621: Wills at Chester.

Alexander Lightbowne, of Eccles, 1638: ibid.

In Ulverston, Lightburn is a name over a shop in close proximity to the suburb Lightburne.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(English) Dweller at the Clear Stream [Old English léoht, bright, clear + burne]

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

Lightbourn Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Lightbourn Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Lightbourn occurs more in The Bahamas more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. For other possible spellings of this surname click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Lightbourn? popularity and diffusion

The surname Lightbourn is the 266,624th most frequent family name on earth, borne by around 1 in 4,971,041 people. This last name is primarily found in The Americas, where 99 percent of Lightbourn reside; 64 percent reside in Caribbean and 63 percent reside in Anglo-Caribbean.

This surname is most prevalent in The Bahamas, where it is borne by 849 people, or 1 in 461. In The Bahamas Lightbourn is most frequent in: New Providence, where 88 percent reside, Grand Bahama, where 8 percent reside and Abaco, where 3 percent reside. Outside of The Bahamas this surname is found in 10 countries. It is also common in The United States, where 31 percent reside and The Turks and Caicos Islands, where 5 percent reside.

Lightbourn Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Lightbourn has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Lightbourn last name grew 1,643 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it declined 93 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Lightbourn Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those holding the Lightbourn surname are 12.15% more likely to be registered Democrats than the national average, with 65.38% registered with the political party.

The amount Lightbourn earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 9.24% less than the national average, earning $39,162 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.86% more than the national average, earning $51,104 CAD per year.

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