Last name origins & meanings:
- French: from the personal name Bernier, from a Germanic
personal name composed of the elements bern ‘bear’ +
hari ‘army’.
- German (from Slavic): habitational name
from a place so named in Mecklenburg.
- A Bernier from Paris, also called Jean de Paris, is recorded in
Quebec city in 1656. Another, from the Poitou region of France, was
documented in Quebec city in 1670, with the secondary surname La
Marzelle.
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