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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern Italian (and Spanish) : habitational name from any of a number of towns and villages so named, from Italian borgo ‘hamlet’, ‘village’, or a topographic name from the same word.
  • Italian : from a short form, Burgi, of a Germanic personal name formed with this element.

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