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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Norwegian : habitational name from either of two farmsteads: Borsheim in Rogaland (from an uncertain first element + heim ‘home’, ‘farmstead’); and Børsheim in Hordaland (from Old Norse byrgi ‘enclosure’ + heim).

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