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’.