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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Börke) : from a pet form of a Slavic personal name containing the element bor ‘to fight’.
  • German (also Börke) : topographic name for someone living near a pine forest, from Slavic bor ‘pine tree’, ‘fir tree’, ‘coniferous forest’.

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