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buras Name Meaning and History

  1. Variant of French Bura(t), from Old French b(o)ure ‘frieze’, a type of coarse woolen cloth, and hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of such cloth.
  2. Norwegian (Burås): habitational name from a farm named Burås, from bu ‘booth’, ‘temporary dwelling’ (from Old Norse búð) + ås ‘hill’.
  3. Polish: nickname from bury ‘dark, brownish gray’, probably denoting hair or eye color.

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buras Family Facts

Distribution of buras Families in the US in 1920
Number of buras families
 59-116
 20-58		 1-19
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