About the Hébert surname
The surname Hébert is associated with a patronymic formation. Hébert derives from an old Germanic personal name later used as a surname. The name therefore belongs to a tradition in which an ancestor's given name gradually became a hereditary surname. Hébert 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 “hebert”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
É-bèr/ebɛʁ/