Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant spelling of Bourne.
- French : nickname for a person with only one eye or with a squint, from Old French borgne ‘squinting’, of unknown origin.
- In some cases, possibly a shortening of the Dutch surname van den Borne, a habitational name for someone from Born in the province of Limburg (Netherlands) or from a place associated with the watercourse of the Borre river in French Flanders.