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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : perhaps a variant spelling of Barth.
  • German : in northern Germany the name and its variants Bordt and Bordemann are topographic names from Middle Low German borde ‘legal and administrative district’ (compare modern German Börde ‘district’), also in the sense of ‘limit’ or ‘border’.

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