Villard History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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France

Etymology of Villard

What does the name Villard mean?

The enchanting region of Bourgoigne was the historical homeland of the prominent surname Villard. Villard is a topographic surname, which is a type of hereditary surname. These 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 an individual and their homeland, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, a person who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original village, 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 Villard family

The surname Villard was first found in Burgundy (French: Bourgogne), an administrative and historical region of east-central France, where this family has been known to live from ancient times.

Early History of the Villard family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Villard research. Another 181 words (13 lines of text) covering the years 1030, 1653 and 1734 are included under the topic Early Villard History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Villard Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Villars, Villar, Villart, Villare, Vilars, Vilart, Vilare, Villarts, Villares, Vilarts, Vilares, Villard, Villards, Villarte, Villarde, Villartes, Villardes, Vilarte, Vilarde, Vilartes, Vilardes, de Villars and many more.

Early Notables of the Villard family

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Villard Ranking

France, the name Villard is the 774^th most popular surname with an estimated 6,440 people with that name. 1

Villard migration to the United States +

Villard Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

J. Jacques Villard settled with his family in Carolina in 1754
J. Jacques Villard settled with his wife and seven children in Philadelphia in 1787
Jean Jacques Villard, who arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1787 with his wife and seven children
Jean Jaques Villard, who arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1788 2

Villard Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Marcolino Villard, aged 25, who landed in New Orleans, La in 1855 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Villard (post 1700) +

Tom Villard (1953-1994), American actor
Oswald Garrison Villard (1872-1949), American journalist
Henry Villard (1835-1900), American journalist and financier
Steve Villard, American politician, Candidate for Mayor of Orlando, Florida, 1996, 2000 3
Henry Serrano Villard (1900-1996), American politician, U.S. Ambassador to Senegal, 1960-61; Mauritania, 1960 4
Paul Ulrich Villard (1860-1934), French chemist and physicist who discovered gamma rays in 1900
Sylvia Del Villard (1928-1990), Puerto Rican actress, dancer, choreographer

Sources +

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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)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 28) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html