Bour as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Bour

What is the meaning of the name Bour ?

The baby name Bour is a Unisex name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /bʊr/ (boor),/bɔːr/ (bore),/buːr/ (boor).

Bour is Afrikaans, Dutch, English, French, Khmer, Norman in Origin.

With roots in continental Europe, Bour is most often a French surname adopted as a given name. It traces to Old French bourg, ‘fortified town/market settlement,’ identifying someone who lived in or came from the bourg - hence senses like ‘townsman’ or ‘citizen.’ In some lineages it reflects a Germanic base būr ‘dwelling; resident,’ a theme paralleled in burgher/borough and in Dutch boer ‘farmer,’ so meanings cluster around ‘dweller’ and ‘farmer.’

As a surname, Bour appears in medieval records in eastern France and the Francophone Rhine, spreading to Switzerland, Belgium, and Quebec; its use as a minimalist given name is modern and rare, often chosen to honor ancestry. Variants and cognates include Bourg, Burr, Buhr, Bühr, Buur, Boer, Baur, and Bauer; related place-derived forms are Bourg and Bourges. The name remains uncommon across languages, lending it a crisp, distinctive profile.