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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant of French Bouvard, from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements bōv(o) ‘boy’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘strong’. This form is found in Switzerland and the Netherlands, as well as in North America; it is probably a Huguenot name.

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