Borich Family History

Americanized form of Serbian and Croatian Borić: patronymic from a short form of any of various Slavic compound personal names based on the element bor ‘to fight’ (from Old Slavic and South Slavic boriti se) e.g. Borislav.

Americanized form of Slovenian Borič: patronymic from the personal name Bor which is of the same origin as the names above or derived from bor ‘pine tree’.

Alternatively a topographic name derived from the latter word.