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borne Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Bourne.
  2. French: nickname for a person with only one eye or with a squint, from Old French borgne ‘squinting’, of unknown origin.
  3. In some cases, possibly a shortening of the Dutch surname van den Borne, a habitational name for someone from Born in the province of Limburg (Netherlands) or from a place associated with the watercourse of the Borre river in French Flanders.

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Distribution of borne Families in the US in 1920
Number of borne families
 42-82
 15-41
 1-14
 0
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