Tardif
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: son, from ME, OF tardif slow (LL tardwus, for class. L tardus). Vars.: Eng.: Tardew. Fr.: Tardy, Tardieu. Dims.: Fr.: Tardiveau, Tardivel, Tard(iv)on. Target see Taggart
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈtɑɹdɪf/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tardif is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- FRFrance
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
son, from ME, OF tardif slow (LL tardwus, for class. L tardus). Vars.: Eng.: Tardew. Fr.: Tardy, Tardieu. Dims.: Fr.: Tardiveau, Tardivel, Tard(iv)on. Target see Taggart
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tardif is read(measured from records)
Tardif is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English47%
son, from ME, OF tardif slow (LL tardwus, for class. L tardus). Vars.: Eng.: Tardew. Fr.: Tardy, Tardieu. Dims.: Fr.: Tardiveau, Tardivel, Tard(iv)on. Target see Taggart
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- French45%
late, belated
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
altération de Letardif, de l’ancien français le tardif, surnom d’un individu lent de corps ou d’esprit.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Tardif is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In fro, late; not on time
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, tardive
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Guillaume Tardifb. 1436FR15th-century French humanist
- Étienne Tardif de Pommeroux de Bordesoulleb. 1771FRFrench general (1771–1837)
- Adolphe Tardifb. 1824FRFrench historian (1824–1890)
- Emiliano Tardifb. 1928CACanadian priest (1928–1999)
- Guy Tardifb. 1935CACanadian politician (1935–2005)
- Claudette Tardifb. 1947CACanadian politician
- Marc Tardifb. 1949CACanadian ice hockey player
- Luc Tardifb. 1953CAFrench-Canadian ice hockey player
- Graham Tardifb. 1957Australian composer
- Luc Tardifb. 1984FRFrench ice hockey player
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #14,877 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,502 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 638 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 622 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 545 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 492 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 490 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 471 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 466 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 410 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 354 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Tardif mean, and where does it come from?
- son, from ME, OF tardif slow (LL tardwus, for class. L tardus). Vars.: Eng.: Tardew. Fr.: Tardy, Tardieu. Dims.: Fr.: Tardiveau, Tardivel, Tard(iv)on. Target see Taggart Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Tardif?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɑɹdɪf/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Tardif?
- In the etymology graph, Tard is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Tardif have the most bearers?
- Tardif is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tardifThe 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, “Tardif”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.