Burgard: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Genealogists group Burgard with Burghardt. The family name meaning is “Strong fortress”, the same as for Burghardt.

• According to the 2010 US Census, the Burgard surname had 1,533 bearers. 1,179 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Burgard name at birth. There were 67 such births in the 1890s and 100 in the 1990s.
• Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.
• The same family of names includes Burgardt, Burkhard and Burckhard.
• Records show Burgard as one of the forms Burghardt took over time.

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