The bourgeois Surname

bourgeois Name Meaning and History

French: status name from Old French burgeis ‘inhabitant and (usually) freeman of a (fortified) town’, ‘burgess’ (from bourg ‘fortification’).

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The bourgeois name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the bourgeois family name as far back in history as possible.

bourgeois Family Facts

Name Distribution (US)Name Distribution (UK)Name Distribution (Scotland)Place of Origin Immigration Year Ports of Departure Life Expectancy Occupations Civil War Service

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Distribution of bourgeois Families in the US in 1920

Number of bourgeois families

209-416

70-208

1-69

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Bourgeois, Cyr	isoule1	5
Samuel BOURGEOIS / Elisa BENOIT	branches4u	2
savana/bourgeois/dicharry	ashielynn114	0
Adele Bourgeois, 1878-1966	Luann Lytell	2
ancestors	Leocadie Bourgeois	15
Simon Bourgeois/ Leonize Breaux	Sandra	1
Jacques Bourgeois Acadia to Joseph Hosea B. New Hampshire	Susan Stevens	3
Agnes Bourgeois	S.B.Davis	2
Family tree	Robert Bourgeois	3
Bourgeois Family Tree	Jack P. Scott	1

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