Chénard
surname · Latin script
Chénard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 661 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Chenard. This surname is mostly found in Canada.
- DMDominica1 in 74K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 503K
- CACanada≈1 in 640K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
661 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Dominica
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chenard in FR France, CA Canada, US United States and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from French Chenard. This surname is mostly found in Canada.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Wiktionary
- Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Chénard is found
(measured from records)Chénard 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 661 | 1 in 503K | 661 | Chenard | 85 |
| CA Canada | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 639K | — | Chenard | 81 |
| ES Spain | 22 | 1 in 2.3M | 22 | Chenard | 2 |
| FR France | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | 90 | Chenard | 167 |
| DM Dominica | 1 | 1 in 74K | 1 | — | — |
661 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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)- Georges Chenard Huchéb. 1864FRFrench painter (1864-1937)
- Alain Chénardb. 1937FRformer mayor of the French city of Nantes
- Carol Anne Chenardb. 1977CACanadian association football referee
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chénard mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French Chenard. This surname is mostly found in Canada. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Chénard?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 661 people named Chénard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chenard. After it come Canada, Spain, France and Dominica; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Chénard most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chénard is densest in Dominica — about 1 in 74 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chénard?
- In the United States, the national register counted 661 people named Chénard in 2010, about 1 in 503 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ch%C3%A9nardThe 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, “Chénard” — ranked 33169th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.