Bedard
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Edward; see Edward
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bedard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 40K
- USUnited States1 in 55K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 344 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈54,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Edward; see Edward.
Sources 1
- Welsh Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bedard counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Bedard | 4 |
| CA Canada | #504 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Bedard | 219 |
| US United States | — | 6,046 | 1 in 55K | 6K | Bedard | 344 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Bedard | 54 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Bedard | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Bedard | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Bedard | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bridget Bedardb. 1901USAmerican screenwriter
- Jim Bedardb. 1927CACanadian ice hockey defenceman born in 1927
- Michael Bedardb. 1949CACanadian children's writer and artist (born 1949)
- Jim Bedardb. 1956CACanadian ice hockey player born in 1956
- Norman Bedardb. 1962CACanadian singer
- Irene Bedardb. 1967USAmerican actress
- Aaron Bedardb. 1969USAmerican musician
- Tony Bedardb. 2000USAmerican comic writer
- Connor Bedardb. 2005CACanadian ice hockey player
- Kelly BedardCAeconomist (University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB))
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6K | #5,734 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.9K | #5,402 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.8K | #5,735 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bedard mean, and where does it come from?
- from Edward; see Edward. Recorded by Welsh Surnames.
- In which country does Bedard have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 54 thousand people named Bedard in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bedard.
- How common is the name Bedard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,046 people named Bedard in 2010, about 1 in 55 thousand residents.
- How common is Bedard compared with other names?
- In Canada, Bedard is the 504th most common surname of 699,524 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bedardThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bedard” — the 504th most common surname in Canada. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.