First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
French: from a pet form of a personal name ending in -nard (assimilated to -nad), for example Bernard; or possibly from one such as Gerard, with medial -r- mutated to -n-.
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