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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. North German and Dutch: variant of Burger.
  2. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from Yiddish borger ‘borrower’ or ‘lender’.
  3. Norwegian and Swedish: habitational name for someone from a place called Borg or topographic name for someone living by a fortification or near a hill resembling a fortification.