Family name origins & meanings
- Danish : habitational name from any of various places called Borup. The place name is derived from a Danish word meaning ‘rim’, ‘edge’ or from the personal name Bowi + Old Norse þorp ‘outlying farmstead’, ‘dwelling’.
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