Possibly an English habitational name, a variant of Barden,
or from places in Devon and Cornwall called Beardon, from Old English
burh ‘manor’ + dun ‘hill’. In the British Isles the
surname is now rare occurring chiefly in Kent.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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