The story
- French · borrowed fromBongard
- Middle Low German · derived frombom“tree”
- German · borrowed fromBongard
- English todayBongard
Various origins: * Borrowed from German Bongard, from Middle Low German bom (“tree”) + gard (“garden”). * A variant of the Dutch surname Boomgaard. * Borrowed from French Bongard, a nickname for a servant, from bon (“good”) + gars (“servant; lad”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.