About the Bélanger surname
The surname Bélanger is associated with a patronymic formation. Bélanger is generally connected with the old given name Bérenger, of Germanic origin. The name therefore belongs to a tradition in which an ancestor's given name gradually became a hereditary surname. Bélanger 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 “belanger”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Bé-lan-jé/belɑ̃ʒe/