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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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