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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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The boor name in History

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Distribution of boor Families in the US in 1920
Number of boor families
 24-45
 9-23		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 16 - Messages: 58
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Boor''s in WV Janet Parker 18
Boor in Daviess Co MO 1900 1920 GeorgiaHartwell81 5
Boor, Baar Tonicek 1
Tilden Reynolds Boor HenryBoore 2
WIlliam Boor or Benjamin Boor of WV S_Lorenzen 6
Effie E Boor Phyllis Wagner 0
William Boor in 1789 Joyce Peck 0
BOOR CynthiaPagano48 2
Paul Boor from Hungaria in 1890's BeverlyBoor 4
Nina Mae Smith obituary (Cumberland, Maryland) Donald W. Nazelrod 0
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