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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from the medieval personal name Borghese, from the adjective borghése ‘burgher’, an inhabitant and (usually) freeman of a (fortified) town, a burgher, especially one with municipal rights and duties (Late Latin burgensis).

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