Bongard Family History
Bongard Name Meaning
German: from Middle Low German bōm ‘tree’ + gard ‘garden’ hence a topographic name for someone who lived by an orchard or a nickname for someone who owned or worked in one. Compare Baumgarten . Dutch: variant of Bogard or Bogaard cognates of French: habitational name from a minor locality named with bon ‘good’ + gard the objective case of Old French gardin ‘garden’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022