Buren Family History
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Buren Name Meaning
Dutch: patronymic from a short form of any of the Germanic personal names beginning with the element Boro. Dutch: short form of Van Buren. 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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
Similar surnames: Burden, Uren, Boden, Duren, Buron, Maren, Bern, Brun, Ouren, Moren