About the Ménard surname
The surname Ménard is associated with a patronymic formation. Ménard comes from an old Germanic personal name. The name therefore belongs to a tradition in which an ancestor's given name gradually became a hereditary surname. Ménard 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 “menard”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Mé-nar/menaʁ/