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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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