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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech, Slovak, and Ukrainian : nickname for a large, loutish fellow, from the vocabulary word burda.
  • Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : nickname for a troublemaker, from Old Polish burda ‘disturbance’, ‘brawl’ (originally meaning ‘burden’, ‘load’).

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