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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : unexplained; perhaps a variant of Walloon Bourdange, from Walloon bourdouh ‘somersault’, ‘leap’, hence possibly a metonymic occupational name for a tumbler or a nickname for an exhuberant person.

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