Billard History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

Origins Available:
England
France

The noble surname Billard originated in the region of Maine, in France. Billard is a topographic surname, which is a type of hereditary surname. Topographic names were given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree. Habitation names form the other broad category of surnames that were derived from place-names. They were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties. As a general rule, the greater the distance between individuals and their homelands, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, people who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original villages, while people who migrated to a different country were often known by the name of a region or country from which they came.

Early Origins of the Billard family

The surname Billard was first found in Maine.

Early History of the Billard family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Billard research. The years 1602, 1666, 1696, 1772, 1783, 1804, 1815, 1826, 1829 and 1830 are included under the topic Early Billard History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Billard Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Billiard, Billiaud, Billiet, Billiez, Billard, Billaud, Billet, Billardon, Billault and many more.

Early Notables of the Billard family

Notable amongst the family at this time was

François-Pierre Billard was a swindler during the eighteenth century
Pierre-Joseph Billard was a baron-general born in 1772
René-Marie Billard was a librarian at this time
Edme-Louis Billardon de Sauvigny was a polygraph during the eighteenth century
Dr. Gabriel Billard was a physiologist in Toulouse during the nineteenth century
Félix-Arsene Billard was bishop of Carcassonne, born in 1829

Billard Ranking

In Newfoundland, Canada, the name Billard is the 387^th most popular surname with an estimated 121 people with that name. 1 However, in France, the name Billard is ranked the 454^th most popular surname with an estimated 9,586 people with that name. 2

Billard migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Billard Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

John Peter Billard, who landed in New York, NY in 1804 3

Billard migration to Canada +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Billard Settlers in Canada in the 17th Century

Jehanne Billard, who landed in Acadia in 1636
Pérette Billard married in 1662 in Quebec

Contemporary Notables of the name Billard (post 1700) +

Barbara "Bobbi" Billard (b. 1975), American glamour model, actress, and former professional wrestler
Commandant Frederick C Billard (1873-1932), sixth Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1924 until his death 4
Pierre Joseph Billard, French Divisional General during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars from 1789 to 1815 5
Martine Billard (b. 1952), French politician, Member of the French National Assembly for Paris I (2002-2012)
Émile Billard (1852-1930), French gold medalist sailor at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Joël Billard (b. 1953), French politician, Member of the Senate of France
Brian Billard, Australian politician, Member for Newland, South Australia (1979-1982)
Lani Billard (b. 1979), Canadian actress, best known for her role as Elizabeth "Busy" Ramone on the television series Ready or Not from 1993-1997

Citations +

The order of Common Surnames in 1955 in Newfoundland retrieved on 20th October 2021 (retrieved from Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland by E.R. Seary corrected edition ISBN 0-7735-1782-0)
http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/nom-de-famille/nom/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
Frederick Billard. (Retrieved 2010, September 27) Frederick Billard. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_C._Billard
Generals Who Served in the French Army during the Period 1789-1815. (Retrieved 2015, February 11) Pierre Billard. Retrieved from http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/c_frenchgenerals.html