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borstel Name Meaning and History

  1. North German: habitational name from any of several places, for example in Holstein and Hannover, so named with Old Saxon bur ‘small house’ + stel ‘place’ or ‘house frame’.
  2. Dutch: nickname for someone with bristly hair, from Middle Dutch borstel ‘brush’.

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

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the borstel family name as far back in history as possible.

borstel Family Facts

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Distribution of borstel Families in the US in 1920
Number of borstel families
 3-4
 2-2		 1
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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