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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : variant of Bellegarde, a widespread topographic name for someone living in a secure, protected location, from French beau (feminine belle) ‘beautiful’, ‘lovely’ + gard ‘shelter’, ‘refuge’. The name is frequent in New England.

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