Last name origins & meanings:
- English: variant spelling of Bond.
- Scandinavian: status name for a farmer, from Old Norse bóndi ‘farmer’.
Compare Bond. In Sweden Bonde is both a personal name
and the name of an old aristocratic family.
- Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead named Bonde, from Old Norse
bóndi ‘farmer’ + vin ‘meadow’.
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