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gardener Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Anglo-Norman French gardinier ‘gardener’. In medieval times this normally denoted a cultivator of edible produce in an orchard or kitchen garden, rather than one who tended ornamental lawns and flower beds.
  2. Americanized form of French Desjardins or German Gärtner (see Gartner).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of gardener Families in the US in 1920
Number of gardener families
 87-172
 30-86
 1-29
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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