French and English: from Old French jardin ‘enclosure’,
‘garden’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a garden
or a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in
one. Compare English Gardner.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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