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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from canard ‘duck’, probably a nickname for someone thought to resemble a duck in some way.
  • Perhaps an altered spelling of Scottish Kinnard, an early spelling of Kinnaird.
  • A Canard from Tours is recorded in Quebec city by 1677.

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