The surname Hansard
A French occupational surname, carried by 1,798 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ˈhænsɚd/ 2 syllables Soundex H526
Origin
French origin
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).
Hansard is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
One of 791 French surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,798 people named Hansard in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 171,716 Americans. That is up 7.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,677.
Who is named Hansard
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
85% of people named Hansard identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.0% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 85%
- Black (not Hispanic) 11%
- Two or more races 2.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Hansard
Hansard has the Soundex code H526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code H526.
Other French surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Hansard come from?
- 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…
- How common is the surname Hansard?
- 1,798 people in the United States had the surname Hansard in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 171,716 Americans. It ranked 16,100th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Hansard?
- In the 2010 Census, 85% of people named Hansard identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Black (not Hispanic).
- How do you pronounce Hansard?
- Hansard is /ˈhænsɚd/, 2 syllables.
- What type of surname is Hansard?
- Hansard is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Hansard getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,677 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,798 in 2010, up 7.2%.