Family name origins & meanings
- French : topographic name for someone who lived on a riverbank, from a derivative of rive ‘(river) bank’.
- A Rivard from the Perche region of France is documented in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, in 1653, with the secondary surname <xref>Lavigne</xref>. Other secondary surnames include Feuilleverte, <xref>Lacoursiere</xref>, La Glanderie, <xref>Lanouette</xref>, <xref>Loranger</xref>, Montendre, Préville.