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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Respelling of French Pallardy, derogatory nickname denoting someone who slept on straw, from a derivative of paille ‘straw’. This name occurs chiefly in New England.
  • A bearer of the name Palardy is documented in Sillery, Quebec, in 1666. Another branch came from the Poitou region of France.

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