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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from Occitan badau ‘stupid’, ‘gullible’, a derivative of badar ‘to be open-mouthed’, ‘to gape’. The name is frequent both in New England and in Louisiana.
  • A bearer of the name from La Rochelle is documented in Quebec city in 1651.

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