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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Castilianized form of Basque Basurtu, a habitational name from a town so named in Biscay, Basque Country, or topographic name from basu ‘wood’, ‘forest’ + an unattested aurte ‘middle’.

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