Burston Family History

English: habitational name from any of various places called Burston in Buckinghamshire, Norfolk, and Staffordshire which have different origins. The Buckinghamshire placename is from an Old English personal name Briddel + Old English thorn ‘thorn tree’; the place in Norfolk is named with Old English byrst ‘rough ground, landslip’ + tūn ‘farmstead’; the Staffordshire placename has the same second element, the first being the Old English personal name Burgwine or Burgwulf.

English: from the Middle English personal name Burstan, Burston (Old English Burgstān from burg ‘fortress’ + stān ‘stone’).

Americanized form of Jewish Burstein (see Bernstein).