Family name origins & meanings
- French : topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing, Old French essart (Late Latin exsartum, past participle of exsarire ‘to weed out’, ‘grub up’), with the definite article l’, or a habitational name from various places named Lessard or Lessart from this word.
- A bearer of the name from Normandy, France, was in Quebec City by 1652.