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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Émard) : from a Germanic personal name (modern Emhardt), composed of Old High German irmin ‘world’ + hard ‘strong’, ‘hardy’.
  • Bearers of this name from Rheims were in Quebec city from 1698; others, from Poitiers, were in Quebec by 1702.

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