Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : nickname for a swindler or trickster, from Middle Dutch baraet, beraet, Old French barat ‘fraud’, ‘trick’, ‘swindle’.
- Spanish and Italian : from borra ‘coarse woolen cloth’ (compare French Borel), or, in Spanish, possibly also from the same word in the sense ‘young sheep’.
- French : southern dialect form of Borre.
- Indian (Andhra Pradesh) : Hindu name of unknown meaning.