Family name origins & meanings
- Polish : from a derivative of Borzysław, Bolebor, or some other personal name formed with bor.
- Polish and Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name from Borek, so named with Polish bór ‘pine forest’ + the diminutive suffix -ek. As a Jewish name, it could sometimes be from a Polonized form of the Yiddish personal name Borukh.