Last name origins & meanings:
- English: habitational name from any of various places called
Burston, in Buckinghamshire, Norfolk, and Staffordshire, which have
different origins. The Buckinghamshire place name is from an Old
English personal name Briddel + Old English þorn
‘thorn tree’; the place in Norfolk is named with Old English
byrst ‘rough ground’, ‘landslip’ + tūn ‘farmstead’;
the Staffordshire place name has the same second element, the first
being an Old English personal name Burgwine or
Burgwulf.
- English: possibly from an unrecorded Old English
personal name, Burgstān.
- Jewish (American): Americanized spelling of Burstein (see Bernstein).
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