About the Bédard surname
The surname Bédard is associated with a patronymic formation. Bédard is generally connected with an old personal name of Germanic tradition. The surname may originally have expressed descent before becoming fixed as a hereditary family name. Bédard contains one or more diacritics in its canonical spelling. Historical or normalized indexes may omit them, which is useful to keep in mind during genealogical research. In the normalization used for some LAFRANCE searches, the surname is also matched through the form “bedard”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Bé-dar/bedaʁ/