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The bouchard Surname

bouchard Name Meaning and History

  1. from a Norman personal name, Bou(r)chart, composed of the Germanic elements bourg ‘fort’ + heard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
  2. nickname for someone with a big mouth (possibly in either a literal or figurative sense), from French bouche ‘mouth’ + the pejorative suffix -ard.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bouchard Families in the US in 1920
Number of bouchard families
 136-269
 46-135		 1-45
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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