Tremblay
also Trembley, Du Tremblay
The aspen grove — and the commonest name in Quebec.
- Origin
- French
- Register
- French family
The seat of Tremblay
Seat vacantChief
No one leads the Tremblay community yet. When the movement opens, you can stand for its leadership, or help elect whoever does.
Current mission
No shared goal set yet. Once Tremblay has leadership, it sets the public focus: a restoration, a gathering, a real-world project that helps its own.
The Tremblay clan is being rebuilt. Join the waiting list for the movement today, and you help decide who leads it and what it does.
Help rebuild the Tremblay clan →What does the Tremblay name mean?
Topographic — a place grown with trembles, aspens, the tree whose leaves shiver in the least wind (Latin tremulus). A modest French surname; in Quebec, the most common of all.
The history of Tremblay
In France, Tremblay is an ordinary place-name — the shivering aspen wood. Its extraordinary career happened across the Atlantic. A single settler, Pierre Tremblay, came from Perche to New France around 1647 and married Ozanne Achon; from that one couple, by the astonishing fertility of the early colony, descend essentially all the world's Tremblays.
It is today the single most common surname in Quebec — a province where a few thousand 17th-century settlers became a nation of millions. No name is a truer emblem of how a handful of French families became a people.
Explore With Your Ancestors · Beta
Pick any year from 500 to 1945 and any place on earth — the Tremblay country, or a shore no Tremblay ever reached. The chronicler sets the scene; the deeds are yours.