Lardner Family History
Lardner Name Meaning
English: metonymic occupational name for a servant in charge of a larder or storeroom for provisions from Anglo-Norman French Middle English lardiner an altered form of Anglo-Norman French larder (from Late Latin lardarium a derivative of lar(i)dum ‘bacon fat’). Compare Larder . According to Reaney the term lardiner also denoted a servant who oversaw the pannage of hogs in the forest.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022