Eastern German: habitational name from either of two places so
named, in Pomerania and Lausitz, or from Borek in Upper Saxony; all
are named with Slavic bor- ‘pine’, ‘conifer’.German:
patronymic from a pet form of a Slavic personal name such as
Boroslaw (see Boris).Dutch: shortened form of
Van der Borck, a variant of Vandenburg.Danish:
from a German variant of Borck.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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