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borg Name Meaning and History

  1. Scandinavian: habitational name from various farms and other minor places so named, from Old Norse borg ‘fortification’, ‘stronghold’. In some cases the name is topographical, often referring to a hill that resembles a fortification, rather than an actual fortification.
  2. North German: habitational name from the common place name Borg, a Low German form of Burg.
  3. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a money lender, from Yiddish borg ‘credit’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The borg name in History

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Distribution of borg Families in the US in 1920
Number of borg families
 48-94
 17-47		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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