Bonde: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Genealogists group Bonde with Bond. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “Farmer, tenant”.

Bonde and Bond

The extra “e” in Bonde is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

About 813 people in the United States were recorded as Bonde in 2010, placing it 29,138 on the national list. From 1891 to 2000, 140 births in France were registered under Bonde.

Family crest and blazon

There is no single Bonde family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

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