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buren Name Meaning and History

  1. Dutch: patronymic from a short form of any of the Germanic personal names beginning with the element Boro.
  2. Dutch: short form of Van Buren.
  3. German (Büren; also Buhren, Bühren): from Old High German bür ‘small house’, ‘chamber’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived ‘near the houses’ or a habitational name from any of various places throughout Germany and in parts of Switzerland named with this word.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of buren Families in the US in 1920
Number of buren families
 16-30
 6-15
 1-5
 0
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