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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BOARD

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English: from Old English bord ‘board’, ‘plank’, ‘table’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a carpenter or a topographic name for someone who lived in a plank-built cottage.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)