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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BAIRD

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Scottish: occupational name from Gaelic bàrd ‘bard’, ‘poet’, ‘minstrel’, or of Gaelic Mac an Baird ‘son of the bard’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)