Family name origins & meanings
- German : from Middle Low German bōm ‘tree’ + gard ‘garden’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by an orchard or a nickname for someone who owned or worked in one. Compare Baumgarten.
- Dutch : variant of Boomgaard (see Boomgarden).
- French : nickname for a trusted servant, from bon ‘good’ + gars ‘servant’, ‘lad’.