First name origin & meaning: Old English: Born of the earth First name variations: Clayborne, Claybourne, Claibourne, Clayton, Claiborn, Claibourn, Clayborn Last name origins & meanings:
- English: It has been proposed that this may be a variant of
Cliburn, but the latter is a northwestern English name whereas
Claiborne is found mostly in Norfolk and the southeast, so it
is more probably from a lost place in that part of England, perhaps
named with Old English clǣg ‘clay’ + burne ‘spring’,
‘stream’.
- William Claiborne (c.1600–77) was a founding colonist in
VA. His descendant, William Charles Claiborne (1775–1817) was the
first governor of LA.
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