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Early Origins of the Borrel family

The surname Borrel was first found in Dauphiny (French: Dauphiné or Dauphiné Viennois), a former province in southeastern France, where this renowned family held a family seat since ancient times.

Early History of the Borrel family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Borrel research. Another 232 words (17 lines of text) covering the years 1330, 1458, 1560, 1596, 1600, 1620, 1671, 1676 and 1800 are included under the topic Early Borrel History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Borrel Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Borel, Borelle, Borels, Borelles, Baurel, Baurelle, Baurels, Baurelles, Borrel, Borrell, de Borel, de Borels, de Borelle, Deborel and many more.

Early Notables of the Borrel family

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Borrel Ranking

In France, the name Borrel is the 3,219th most popular surname with an estimated 2,000 - 2,500 people with that name. 1


Borrel migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Borrel Settlers in United States in the 19th Century
  • Isidro Borrel, who arrived in Puerto Rico in 1860 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Borrel (post 1700) +

  • Jean-Baptiste Joseph Noël Borrel, French Brigadier General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 3


  1. http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, February 11) Jean-Baptiste Borrel. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html


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