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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name, with the preposition de ‘from’, for someone from a place called Bord, in Creuse, or from either of two places called Bort, in Puy-de-Dôme and Corrèze.
  • French : possibly a topographic name for someone who lived at the side of a road, river, or similar, from bord ‘border’, ‘edge’.

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