Ménard

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Du nom germanique Maginhard, de magin « force, puissance » et hard « dur, fort »

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/menaʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ménard is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 29K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 36K
  • CACanada≈1 in 57K

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.

United States (measured from records)

11,543 people, 2010

Sources
375 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Menard in US United States, CA Canada, DZ Algeria 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)

recorded in French

Du nom germanique Maginhard, de magin « force, puissance » et hard « dur, fort ».

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ménard 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.

Where Ménard is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—11,5431 in 29K12KMenard375
FR France—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 36K2.7KMénard158
CA Canada#832≈670 est.≈1 in 57K—Menard159
SI Slovenia—1641 in 13K164—2
PL Poland—871 in 440K46—1
CH Switzerland—621 in 136K62Menard12
DZ Algeria#138≈7 est.≈1 in 6.5M—Menard2

11,543 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ménard is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Menard

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Algeria, Egypt, Canada

    Also written Menard

  • Hindi surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India

    Languages: Hindi, Sinhala, Urdu

    Also written Menard

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Canada, United States, Türkiye

    Also written Menard

  • Swahili surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Tanzania, United Kingdom

    Also written Menard

  • Russian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Türkiye, Syria

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Менар, Menard, Menar, Менард

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Louis Ménard, b. 1822René Ménard, b. 1862Pauline Ménard-Dorian, b. 1870Claude Ménard, b. 1906Robert Ménard, b. 1953Emmanuelle Ménard, b. 1968Phia Ménard, b. 1971Julie Ménard, b. 1973Malika Ménard, b. 1987Lysandre Ménard, b. 1993

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Ménard, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Ménard
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202462#15,845
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#365,497
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#360,352

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

How do you pronounce Ménard?
A machine transcription gives /menaʁ/ (IPA) for French.
What does the name Ménard mean?
Recorded meaning: Du nom germanique Maginhard, de magin « force, puissance » et hard « dur, fort ».
In which country does Ménard have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Ménard, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled menard.
Where is Ménard most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ménard is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ménard?
In the United States, the national register counted 11,543 people named Ménard in 2010, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
How common is Ménard compared with other names?
In Algeria, Ménard is the 138th most common surname of 89,473 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Ménard” — the 138th most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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