Frequency: (1092)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
French: nickname from bon ‘good’ + the personal name Durand, literally ‘good Durand’. This is a Huguenot name that was brought to North American in about 1690.
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