Frequency: (859)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
German: 1. southern reduced form of Baumgarten. 2. in southern Germany, also in Alsace, from the occupational name Banwart ‘field and forest ranger’. 3. variant of Bankert.
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