Frequency: (113)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German (also Börke): 1. from a pet form of a Slavic personal name containing the element bor ‘to fight’. 2. topographic name for someone living near a pine forest, from Slavic bor ‘pine tree’, ‘fir tree’, ‘coniferous forest’.
GIVEN NAME German 7%. Fritz (2).
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