American Family Name Origins:
Palardy
Frequency: (222)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Respelling of French Pallardy, derogatory nickname denoting someone who slept on straw, from a derivative of paille ‘straw’. This name occurs chiefly in New England.
FOREBEARS: A bearer of the name Palardy is documented in Sillery, Quebec, in 1666. Another branch came from the Poitou region of France.
GIVEN NAMES: French 13%. Adrien (2), Laurent (2), Alphonse, Andre, Armand, Benoit, Lucien.
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