# Hansard (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/hansard/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,798 |
| US rank (2010) | 16,100 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 171,716 people |
| Change since 2000 | +7.2% (1,677 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈhænsɚd/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

PIE word *ḱóm From Middle English hansard (“merchant or citizen of a Hanseatic town; member of a merchant guild; a surname”), from hanse, hansze, hanze, haunse (“merchant guild; the Hanseatic League; member of the Hanseatic League; membership fee for a merchant guild; payment in general”) + -ard (suffix forming adjectives and nouns). Hanse is derived from Old French hanse (“merchant guild; membership fee for a merchant guild”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; with; along”) + *sed- (“to sit”). The English word is analysable as Hanse (“merchant guild; the Hanseatic League”) + -ard (suffix forming agent nouns, especially pejorative ones).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Hansard in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 85% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 11% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 2.0% |

## Similar surnames

Hanger, Honaker, Hungerford, Hankerson, Henegar, Hamaker, Hunger, Hemsworth, Hammaker, Honegger.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.