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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : nickname from Old French chenes ‘white hair’, from Latin canus ‘white’, ‘hoary’.
  • A bearer of the name Chenard from Limoges is recorded in Beauport, Quebec, in 1752.

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