Family name origins & meanings
- French : from Old French, Old Occitan bureau, burel ‘frieze’, ‘coarse woolen material’ (see Borel).
- A bearer of the name from Brittany is documented in L’Ancienne Lorette, Quebec, in 1685, with the secondary surname Sanssoucy; another, from the Nivernais region, is recorded in Quebec city in 1699.
