Family name origins & meanings
- French : from a diminutive of Old French gendre ‘son-in-law’ (Latin gener).
- French : habitational name from Gendron in Namur province, Belgium.
- French : A bearer of the name Gendreau, from Saintonge, was in Château Richer, Quebec, by 1663, while someone called Gendron, also from Saintonge, was in Quebec city from 1656; another, from Brittany, was in Montreal by 1664; and a third, again from Saintonge, was in Quebec city by 1710.