When Lucretia Jane Boren was born on 11 October 1850, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, her father, Beverly Collins Boren, was 30 and her mother, Mary Frances Mathis, was 36. She died on 16 July 1852, in At Sea, at the age of 1, and was buried in Willow Creek, South Australia, Australia.
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Swedish (also Borén): ornamental name composed of an unexplained first element + the adjectival suffix -én/-en, a derivative of Latin -enius ‘relating to’. Compare Boreen and Borin .
Polish (Boreń): from a pet form of the personal names like Borzysław (see Bora 1).
Probably also an Americanized form of German Born .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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