as a Last Name
- 1,981
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Bourdon
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 14,949th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,981
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Bourdon per capita
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