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Many infomration sources seem to take wild guesses and state their guesses as fact. You get that Boring means serious or dull or that it has something to do with mining or "boring" into rock.

Careful research shows that Boring is a name that's grouped with others with the root "ber/bor". 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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