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Buras

in Nebraska

There are 18 people with the last name "Buras" in Nebraska.

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Buras 12,493
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  1. is 12,489th most common Brogren
  2. is 12,490th most common Brudny
  3. is 12,491st most common Brueggeman
  4. is 12,492nd most common Buel
  5. is 12,493rd most common Buras
  6. is 12,494th most common Burkinshaw
  7. is 12,495th most common Busteed
  8. is 12,496th most common Butters
  9. is 12,497th most common Cacioppo

Similar Names and Nicknames

Burak, Barak, Barash, Burack, Buran, Burandt, Borawski, Burau, Borak, Barasch

Most Common First Names for Buras

Richard, Daniel, Dorene, James, Jana, Jean, Nancy, Nicholas, Peggy, Phillip

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Meaning & 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.

FOREBEARS The Louisiana Buras family traces its descent from a Jean-Guillaume Burat, a soldier from Saleure, Switzerland, who was married in Mobile, AL, in 1725.

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