Family name origins & meanings
- English (Norfolk) : from Middle English pardun, pardon ‘pardon’, a metonymic occupational name for a pardoner, a person licensed to sell papal pardons or indulgences.
- German : either a cognate of 1 (also for a sexton), from Old French pardon ‘pardon’, or perhaps a nickname from Middle Low German bardūn, Middle High German purdūne ‘pipe’ (instrument), ‘tenor’ (voice).