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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : habitational name for someone from a place named with Bor, a short form of the personal names Borzysław or Bolebor (composed of Slavic borzy, bor ‘to fight’ + sław ‘glory’ or bole ‘greater’ + the possessive suffix -ow).
  • Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from a place named with bór ‘pine forest’.

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