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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Bührer) : habitational name for someone from any of the places called Bühren, in Westphalia, near Hannover, and near Oldenburg, or from Büren in Westphalia. The last is named with Middle Low German bur ‘dwelling’, ‘settlement’.

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