Ardant is used as a family name or surname in many languages. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Ardant
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Unknown
Meaning: The oldest known name references are in Limoges since the late sixteenth century. It should correspond to the "ardent" adjective, perhaps to denote one who suffered from the burning sickness. The adjective has also referred to the Middle Ages a brutal person or exuberant sexuality. Finally, and this may be the best solution, the adjective was used as a first name in the Middle Ages (a mention in 1385 in Thuir, 66).

How popular is Ardant?

Ardant is ranked 604177 on our list.

Ardant is a very rare surname, few people in France have the family name and might be arised from France. Around 356 people have been found who wears Ardant as their family name. Few people around the world have Ardant as their surname. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
318,252 Ukraine6
201,317 England2
1,527,634 United States2
91,024 Belgium1
38,830 Morocco1
897,276 Russia1
Countries with hundreds of Ardant:
28,906 France343

Immigrants to US

From Italy

Laborer Pierre Ardant from Unknown, Italy aboard the Baltic from Liverpool & Queenstown. He is registered to be 22 years old when he arrived in USA on February 25, 1882.

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 Ardant is a name that comes from the burning sickness, ailment that caused great havoc in Europe from the tenth to the twelfth century the patients with these convulsions were called burning.

Ardant Namesakes

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