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Surname Etymology and Meaning of PARDO

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Name meanings and etymologies are often disputed. The information here is compiled from freely available sources, and no claims whatsoever are made for accuracy, either historical or etymological.

1. Spanish and Portuguese: nickname for someone with tawny hair, from pardo ‘dusky’, ‘brown’, ‘dark gray’, (from Latin pardus ‘leopard’).
2. Italian: from a personal name, a variant of the Lombardic personal name Bardo (see Bardo).
3. Italian and Greek: from the Greek personal name Pardos ‘leopard’, ‘cheetah’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)