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Borland


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Origin Of The Surname Borland

Meaning Of The Surname Borland

From the Town with the Bord Farm

Interesting Facts About Borland

Borland is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English ‘bord’ meaning a table combined with ‘land’. This is a reference to an area of farmland that was worker to produce food for the ‘table’ of a large manor. Places with this name would have originally had such a farm and manor.

Borland Statistics

Borland is the number 1208 ranked surname in the United Kingdom. According to our statistics around 8,215 share the surname Borland in the UK.

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