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Boring is my surname. Lots of sources seem to take wild guesses and state their guesses as Where_did_the_surname_Boring_originate. You get that Boring means serious or dull or that it has something to do with mining or "boring" into rock. From my studies Boring is a name that's grouped with others with the root "ber/bor". And they seem to have both root forms. You have Boring/Bering, Bohr/Behr, Born/Bern, Borman/Berman, Boren/Beren, etc. Most genealogies seem to end up in Northern Germany and Denmark. The germanic root for bear seems the most likely.

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