Are all people with the last name of Bordner in the USA related?

Ok so the old family story goes that our German ansestors came from Germany to the USA and some how the last name got changed from Bortner to Bordner. I have google info about this and have found a bit of info on this. My grandpa says there was only one family with the last name of Bortner came to the USA long ago and when they came the name got changed. I read on a website that indeed there is only one record of a family with the last name of Bortner came to the USA when everyone was flooding into the USA(1700s). Wouldn't that make everyone in the USA with the last name of Bordner realated because only one family came and changed there name? Also he said when he went to college he meet someone with the last name of Bordner too and that he ended up being like his fourth cousin or something like that. I am not sure all of the info i have is right though. Google Bortner to Bordner name change, or Bortner name change to Bordner. Thanks.
Are all people with the last name of Bordner in the USA related?
I wouldn't be surprised if that were true. I have a few surnames in my family tree that are the same way - very unusual names and/or spellings - and after years of research, we haven't found anyone with those names who ISN'T related. Of course, that's not counting people who acquired the name through adoption, or cases where grandma had a secret fling with the milkman and no one will ever know without a DNA test. But aside from that, I'm sure that there are some surnames that are unique to specific families, and Bordner may very well be one of them. =)
Are all people with the last name of Bordner in the USA related?
There are Bortners in the passenger lists from Germany, Norway, Austria, Holland and Poland. Bordners are from Holland, Germany, Hungary and Russia. Who was the Bortner who migrated?

(People weren't' flooding into the US in the 1700, but the 1800s.)



There are both Bordner and Bortner families who have been in the US since at least the 1700s, many living in PA. There are also thousands of family trees for both names on ancestry.com.



These Bortner/Bordner families who migrated in the eary 18th century were Mennonites and came from Germany. If you are a descendant of one of these families, you have many, many cousins living in the US.



If you want to know when your ancestor migrated and when the name was changed, you will have to do the research.



Good luck, this will be a very interesting history to research
I did Google the name change like you asked and I found the following book which offers an explaination to your lore of, “only one record of a family with the last name of Bortner came to the USA.”



The Bordner and Burtner Families: and their Bortner ancestors in America http://www.archive.org/details/bordnerbu…



It is believed that Balser Bortner and his family were the only ones having

that family name to enter the Pennsylvania Colony. As will be shown later, a

majority of their descendants have carried changed spellings of the family name…%26quot;Bordner%26quot; and %26quot;Burtner%26quot;, the former being neatest in number. There is no

known record of immigrants by the name of either %26quot;Bortner%26quot;, %26quot;Bordner%26quot;, or %26quot;Burtner%26quot; entering the original colonies or the United States until the mid-nineteenth century, as will be discussed later. Pg 7



So, it seems that the lore about the only one family with the surname Bortner coming to the US has been changed from only one family with the surname Bortner to enter the Pennsylvania Colony…big difference.



Under this new scenario, no, all Bordners would not be related.



You should be able to download that book at the link provided, if not email me and I will make arrangements to email it to you.