Släkthistoria för Butchard
Butchard Vad efternamn betyder
from the Old French personal name Burchard Buchard (Continental Germanic Burghard from elements meaning ‘fortress’ and ‘hard bold’). The name rarely occurs in its original form (see Burchard) but more commonly as B(o)uchard and Bochard with dissimilative loss of the first -r-. It may also survive as Burkitt and Burchett.perhaps in some instances a variant of Butcher with excrescent -d but it is more likely that some example of Butcher are altered forms by folk etymology of Butchard.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
