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Last name origins & meanings:

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