Frequency: (364)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: 1. from the medieval personal name Bardo, a short form of Isembardo, Lombardo, or Bernardo, for example. 2. (Sicily) possibly from Arabic balad ‘plot’, ‘village’.
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