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boor Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Old English bar ‘boar’, hence probably a nickname for a keen hunter of wild boar or for someone thought to resemble the animal in some way.
  2. Variant spelling of Boer.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of boor Families in the US in 1920
Number of boor families
 24-45
 9-23
 1-8
 0
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