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Buras Name Meaning
Variant of French Bura(t), from Old French
b(o)ure ‘frieze’, a type of coarse woolen cloth, and hence a
metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of such
cloth.Norwegian (Burås): habitational name from a farm
named Burås, from bu ‘booth’, ‘temporary dwelling’ (from Old
Norse búð) + ås ‘hill’.Polish:
nickname from bury ‘dark, brownish gray’, probably denoting
hair or eye color.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Buras Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Buras families
 59 - 116  20 - 58 |
 1 - 19  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Buras families
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20 - 37 7 - 19 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Buras families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Buras Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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