Dutch and Jewish (from the Netherlands): habitational name for
someone from any of the many places in the Netherlands named with
Middle Dutch buur, buer ‘house’, ‘shed’, in particular
Buren in Gelderland.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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