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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Bourne.
  • French : nickname for a person with only one eye or with a squint, from Old French borgne ‘squinting’, of unknown origin.
  • In some cases, possibly a shortening of the Dutch surname van den Borne, a habitational name for someone from Born in the province of Limburg (Netherlands) or from a place associated with the watercourse of the Borre river in French Flanders.

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