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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Dutch: patronymic from a short form of any of the Germanic personal names beginning with the element Boro.
  2. Dutch: short form of Van Buren.
  3. German (Büren; also Buhren, Bühren): from Old High German bür ‘small house’, ‘chamber’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived ‘near the houses’ or a habitational name from any of various places throughout Germany and in parts of Switzerland named with this word.

This name appears in the following lists: First Ladies, Presidents' Kids, U.S. Presidents

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