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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from any of the many places in Belarus and Ukraine called Borovka, or from Borovaya, Borovye, or Borovoe in Belarus, or any other place named with Slavic (Russian) bor ‘pine forest’.

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