The bork Surname
bork Name Meaning and History
- Eastern German: habitational name from either of two places so named, in Pomerania and Lausitz, or from Borek in Upper Saxony; all are named with Slavic bor- ‘pine’, ‘conifer’.
- German: patronymic from a pet form of a Slavic personal name such as Boroslaw (see Boris).
- Dutch: shortened form of Van der Borck, a variant of Vandenburg.
- Danish: from a German variant of Borck.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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