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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably French, but unexplained; perhaps an altered form of Burban, a nickname for a vain or arrogant man, from Old French burban ‘splendour’, or alternatively a much altered form of Bourbon (see Bourbonnais).

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