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bourdon Name Meaning and History

French: from Old French bourdon, a word with several meanings, from any or each of which the surname could have arisen: ‘pilgrim’s staff’, as a nickname for a pilgrim; ‘bumblebee’, as a nickname for someone thought to resemble the insect in some way; and ‘bagpipes’, as a metonymic occupational name for a piper or pipe-maker.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bourdon Families in the US in 1920
Number of bourdon families
 22-42
 8-21		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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