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There are approximately 34,247 people named Bond in the UK. That makes it the 269th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 542 are named Bond.

Region of origin

British Isles

Country of origin

England

Language of origin

English

Religion of origin

Christian

Classification

English
Status Name

Related and similar surnames

Bonde
Bonda
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Boanda
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The Bond surname in historical dictionaries

An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names (1857)

The father of a family, "Pater familias," whence husband, that is, house-bond. Bonde, in Danish, is a peasant, countryman, also a villager.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

Patronymica Britannica (1860)

BOND. A-Sax. ionda, a householder, proprietor, husbandman. Latinized Paterfamilias, according to JIag. Brit. i. 61, "and rightly enough as it should seem, because much in the same sense in composition we use husband or husband." Le Bond. H.E. There are several persons called Bonde in Domesd., one of whom is somewhat contradictorily called " liber homo."

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

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