Family name origins & meanings
- Variant of French Tougard, from a personal name composed of the Old Norse personal name þórr, the name of the god of thunder in Scandinavian mythology (see Thor), + gard ‘manor’ (cognate with English yard and garden).
- A Tougas or Tougard from Normandy, France, is documented in Montreal in 1698, with the secondary surname <xref>Laviolette</xref>.