Frequency: (329)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
French: occupational name from French bombardier ‘bombardier’, ‘artilleryman’.
FOREBEARS: Recorded in Montreal in 1706 is a person called Bombardier from Flanders with the secondary surnames Labombarde and Passepartout.
GIVEN NAMES: French 11%. Andre (2), Armand (2), Yvon (2), Gaston, Nicolle, Pierre, Romain.
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