Yarbrough

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Yarbrough is a surname of Lincolnshire origin. In English it originated as an habitational or topographic name from Yarborough and Yarburgh in Lincolnshire, named with Old English eorðburg ‘earthworks’, ‘fortifications’, (a compound of eorðe/eorethe ‘earth’, ‘soil’ + burg ‘fortress’, ‘burrow’).

People with the surname Yarbrough:

• Glenn Yarbrough (born 1930), American folk singer
• James C. Yarbrough (born 1957), is a General in the United States Army.