Garde Family History
Garde Name Meaning
Basque: habitational name from a place so named in Navarre from Basque garde ‘place where wild oats grow’. English and German: variant of Gard . French: from Old French garde ‘watch protection’; an occupational name for someone who kept watch or guard or a topographic name for someone who lived near a vantage point or watchtower. Alternatively a habitational name from any of several places in various parts of France called Garde(s) named with this word (compare Lagarde ). Swedish (Gårde): variant of Gård (see Gard ). Danish: from German Garde ‘garden’ or ‘twigs brushwood’. Indian (Maharashtra): Brahmin name found among the Konkanastha Brahmins probably from Marathi gərḍa ‘belch’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022