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Updated March 6, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Catalan : habitational name from any of several places called Borges in Catalonia, for example, Les Borges Blanques, in Lleida, or Les Borges del Camp, in Tarragona.
  • Portuguese : of disputed etymology; possibly a habitational name for someone from Bourges in France.
  • German : from a short form of the medieval personal name Liborius.
  • Danish : from the German patronymic Borchers.

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