Legard Family History
Legard Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): from the Middle English male or female personal name Legard (Old French Legard from ancient Germanic Leudgard Liudgard or its female equivalent Leudgarda Liudgarda). These derive from the elements leud ‘people’ + gard ‘protective enclosure yard’. French: metonymic occupational name for a gardener or status name for someone who owned garden a variant of Gard with fused masculine definite article le. Compare also Alligood .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022