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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bodhráin ‘descendant of the deaf one’, from bodhar ‘deaf’.
  • Czech (also Bořan) : from a personal name beginning or ending with the element bor ‘battle’ e.g. Bořivoj or Bořislav, or Dalibor.

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