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bullard Name Meaning and History

  1. most probably from bullward, an occupational name for someone who looked after a bull.
  2. alternatively, it may be a nickname for a fraudster, from Old French, Middle English bole ‘fraud’, ‘deceit’ + the pejorative suffix -(h)ard, or a nickname for a rotund man, from a pejorative derivative of Old French boule ‘round’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bullard Families in the US in 1920
Number of bullard families
 132-262
 45-131
 1-44
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