Meaning & Origin
A placename: A village and civil parish in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in Eden district . A rural settlement in Clutha district, Otago, New Zealand, named after Morris Milburn. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Carlisle County, Kentucky. A township in Custer County, Nebraska. An unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska. A town in Johnston County, Oklahoma. An unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas. An unincorporated community in Sanpete County, Utah. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
Milburn is a boy's baby name of Old English origin, from a place name meaning 'mill stream' — combining mylen (mill) and burna (stream). Used as a given name in the 19th and 20th centuries, it carries the honest, working-class English character of place-based names.