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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern French : topographic name for someone who lived in a plank-built cottage, from Frankish bord ‘plank’. Later, this word came to designate a farm.
  • German : see Bordes 3.
  • Indian (Maharashtra); pronounced as bor-day : Hindu (Maratha) name of unknown meaning.

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