Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Yiddish borger
‘borrower’ or ‘lender’.
Norwegian and Swedish: habitational
name for someone from a place called Borg or topographic name
for someone living by a fortification or near a hill resembling a
fortification.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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