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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern French : from a diminutive of French Bourrasse (see Bouras).
  • A bearer of the name Bourassa, also known as Bourasseau, from the Poitou region of France, is recorded in Quebec city in 1665.

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