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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Barden.
  • French : from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Bardo, from Old High German barta ‘battle axe’.
  • Russian : from barda ‘distillery refuse’; the reasons for the adoption of this name are not clear.

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