Family name origins & meanings
- French : possibly a derivative of Occitan burdir ‘to sport or amuse oneself’ or a variant of Bordeau.
- Southern French : variant of Bourdin, a nickname or metonymic occupational name, from medieval Latin burdinus ‘mule’, ‘hinny’.
- Russian and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : see Burda.
- English : variant spelling of Burdon.