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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : from Middle Low German borgman or borchman ‘man of the castle’, hence an occupational name for someone who worked at a castle or was a vassal of the feudal lord, or for a citizen of a (fortified) town.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Borg.

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