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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : nickname for a little fellow, from Low German dialect word meaning ‘buttocks’, ‘stump’. Compare Boortz.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : habitational name from a place in Lithuania, called Bortsi in Russian.

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