Gond meaning | Last name Gond origin

The surname Gond is the variant of Gant. One who made and sold gloves.

Family name Gond is the variant form of the Gant. See Gaunt - Like John, fourth son of Edward III., some families of this surname eridently derive it from the town of Gaunt, now Ghent, in Flanders. De Gaunt and Le Gaunt are both found in the Hundred Rolls; the latter form is probably from the personal peculiarity of the first bearer. Shakspeare makes John of Gaunt play upon his own name in Richard II. in this sense :
"Oh, how my name befits my composition!
old Gaunt, indeed, and gaunt in being old;
Within me grief has kept a tedious fast;
And who abstains from incat that is not gaunt?
For sleeping England long time have I watched;
Watching breeds leanness; leanness is all gaunt."

Gilbert de Gand or Gant, a great Domesday tenant, was son of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, whose sister William the Conqueror married

Le Gant and De Gant in Hundred Rolls.

Gond is the variant form of Gaunt. Like John, fourth son of Edward III., some families of this surname eridently derive it from the town of Gaunt, now Ghent, in Flanders. De Gaunt and Le Gaunt are both found in the Hundred Rolls; the latter form is probably from the personal peculiarity of the first bearer. Shakspeare makes John of Gaunt play upon his own name in Richard II. in this sense :
"Oh, how my name befits my composition!
old Gaunt, indeed, and gaunt in being old;
Within me grief has kept a tedious fast;
And who abstains from incat that is not gaunt?
For sleeping England long time have I watched;
Watching breeds leanness; leanness is all gaunt."

Gilbert de Gand or Gant, a great Domesday tenant, was son of Baldwin, Earl of Flanders, whose sister William the Conqueror married.