Mrs. Hebert
pronounced, Mrs. A-Bear
2007-12-09 02:58:25 · 4 answers · asked by Gianni Lynn 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
???
I bet (eventually) many people would give up and say he-burt. The reality is that names do NOT always come from one original place, they can come from different countries. The way you say it is pronounced, makes me think French but that is just guessing and I hate guesses. I like to KNOW. The funny thing, of course.. it is a husband's name so it has no real connection to where her ancestors came from (and maybe not even his). He might have English ancestors who moved to France in the 1700s.
2007-12-09 03:13:08 · answer #1 · answered by wendy c 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure about the pronunciation? If it's really "a-bear", then indeed it sounds French.
But if I look at the name, it sounds more German to me: the ending "-bert" is a very common one in German names, going back to the middle ages. There is a first name "Herbert" (pronounced "hair-bear-t"). Your name could be a corruption of that name - things like that happened often over the centuries.
To make things more complicated: the name might have belonged to someone from a German country who later went to France, so the name was changed subsequently.
What exactly applies in your case can only be found out if you trace your ancestors.
2007-12-09 14:11:16 · answer #2 · answered by Thomas P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name is probably French.
2007-12-09 11:12:15 · answer #3 · answered by classmate 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds french to me
2007-12-09 11:26:56 · answer #4 · answered by Edward R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋