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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Ukrainian, Polish, and Jewish (from Ukraine and Poland) : nickname, sometimes denoting a dirty unkempt individual, from borsuk ‘badger’. As a Jewish surname it can sometimes be a habitational name from Borsuki, a village in Ukraine.

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