Family name origins & meanings
- Czech (Buřič) and Slovak (Burič) : nickname from buřič ‘rebel’.
- Americanized spelling of Serbian and Croatian Burić, a patronymic of uncertain origin. In Serbia it is probably from a descriptive nickname based on bur ‘dark brownish gray’.
- German : variant of German Burisch, from a derivative of the Slavic personal name Bureslav.