Bond Name Study

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Welcome to the Bond Name Study Project Page

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname BOND and its variants. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

For a list of profiles associated with project please visit our Bond Name Study Category Page

Bond Name Meaning

English: status name for a peasant farmer or husbandman, Middle English bonde (Old English bonda, bunda, reinforced by Old Norse bóndi). The Old Norse word was also in use as a personal name, and this has given rise to other English and Scandinavian surnames alongside those originating as status names. The status of the peasant farmer fluctuated considerably during the Middle Ages; moreover, the underlying Germanic word is of disputed origin and meaning. Among Germanic peoples who settled to an agricultural life, the term came to signify a farmer holding lands from, and bound by loyalty to, a lord; from this developed the sense of a free landholder as opposed to a serf. In England after the Norman Conquest the word sank in status and became associated with the notion of bound servitude. Swedish: variant of Bonde. ^[1]

Reference Resources

• Bond Name Page on Ancestry.com
• Bond Surname Topic on Genealogy.com
• Huge list of Bond profiles on RootsWeb
• Bond Family History by Russell K. Bond
• History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
• Gravestones of Bond Family

Citations

1. ↑ Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press