Family name origins & meanings
- Dutch : patronymic from a short form of any of the Germanic personal names beginning with the element Boro.
- Dutch : short form of Van Buren.
- German (Büren; also Buhren, Bühren) : from Old High German bür ‘small house’, ‘chamber’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived ‘near the houses’ or a habitational name from any of various places throughout Germany and in parts of Switzerland named with this word.