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Bankard

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of French Ban(c)quart, metonymic occupational name for a carter, from Old French bancart ‘bench of a wagon or cart’, later a particular type of cart.

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