Family name origins & meanings
- Spanish and Portuguese : nickname for someone with tawny hair, from pardo ‘dusky’, ‘brown’, ‘dark gray’, (from Latin pardus ‘leopard’).
- Italian : from a personal name, a variant of the Lombardic personal name Bardo (see Bardo).
- Italian and Greek : from the Greek personal name Pardos ‘leopard’, ‘cheetah’.