Surname Spotlight: Izard

Spain's INE counts 171 residents with Izard as first surname and 181 with it as second. Spaniards carry two surnames, one from each parent, which is why Izard is counted in both positions. From 1891 to 2000, 3,434 births in France were registered under Izard. There were 234 such births in the 1890s and 259 in the 1990s. Census returns, passenger lists and civil registers are the best places to follow an Izard line back. Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Izard, so we research it family by family rather than guess.

Before any talk of crests, here are the plain facts about Izard.

Sharing the Izard name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families. Want more than a summary? See the Izard family name pack.