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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Dutch : variant of Burger.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname from Yiddish borger ‘borrower’ or ‘lender’.
  • Norwegian and Swedish : habitational name for someone from a place called Borg or topographic name for someone living by a fortification or near a hill resembling a fortification.

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