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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : from the personal name Tor (see Thor) + borg ‘castle’, ‘fortress’, probably an ornamental name.
  • North German : topographic name from Low German to der borg (burg) ‘at the fort or castle’.

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