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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably a variant spelling of French Becard or Béchart, nicknames for a gossip, from bec ‘beak’ + the pejorative suffix -ard, -art.
  • An immigrant from the Limousin region of France was variously documented in Quebec in 1691 as Béchard, Béchet, Bechéque, and Beriade.

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