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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname for a man with a remarkable beard, from Yiddish bord combined with German Bart, both meaning ‘beard’.
  • Polish : from borta ‘braid’, ‘galloon’, a loanword from German (Borte).

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