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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from the plural of jardin ‘garden’ (Old French jart), with the preposition and definite article des ‘from the’; a topographic name or a habitational name from any of numerous minor places so named. In the U.S., this name was often translated as Gardner.

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