Family name origins & meanings
- Eastern German : habitational name from either of two places so named, in Pomerania and Lausitz, or from Borek in Upper Saxony; all are named with Slavic bor- ‘pine’, ‘conifer’.
- German : patronymic from a pet form of a Slavic personal name such as Boroslaw (see Boris).
- Dutch : shortened form of Van der Borck, a variant of Vandenburg.
- Danish : from a German variant of Borck.