American Family Name Origins:
Lardner
Frequency: (215)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
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 (Late Latin lardarium, a derivative of lar(i)dum ‘bacon fat’). According to Reaney, the name Lard(i)ner was also given to a servant who oversaw the pannage of hogs in the forest.
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