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Frequency: (411)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German (of Slavic origin): nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Old Slavic boru ‘quarrel’, ‘fight’, or from a Slavic personal name composed with this word.
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Oxford Dictionary of Family Names
Dictionary of American Family Names. Copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks. All rights reserved.
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