De Boer
also Boer, Den Boer
The farmer — and the root of 'Boer'.
- Origin
- Dutch
- Register
- Dutch family
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Current mission
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Help rebuild the De Boer clan →What does the De Boer name mean?
'The farmer' — de boer, the man who worked the land. The same word, and the same people, that the world came to know as the Boers of South Africa.
The history of De Boer
De Boer is simply the farmer, one of the commonest surnames of a country that reclaimed its richest land from the sea — the Dutch cousin of the German Bauer. The word itself sailed south with the Dutch settlers of the Cape and became the name of a whole people: the Boers, the farmer-colonists of the South African veld whose descendants are the Afrikaners.
The same name across Europe
De Boer shares its meaning — not its bloodline — with these names from other corners of Europe: cognates, the same word for the same thing, formed independently in each language. Cousins by meaning, with separate ancestral stories a search box flattens into near-twins.
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Pick any year from 500 to 1945 and any place on earth — the De Boer country, or a shore no De Boer ever reached. The chronicler sets the scene; the deeds are yours.