Scottish: habitational name from any of several places called
Bor(e)land or Bordland, which are named with Old or Middle English
bord ‘board’, ‘table’ + land ‘land’, i.e. land that
supplied the lord’s table, in other words ‘home farm’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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