French (Quebec) Submitted Surnames

These names are a subset of French names used more often in the province of Quebec in Canada. See also about French names.

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ALARIE French (Quebec)
Derived from the Visigothic given name ALARIC. This form was established in Quebec from 1681.

ALLAIRE Medieval French, French (Quebec), French (Huguenot)
Allaire is the name of a village in Northwestern France(Brittany) near Vannes. The name may have Breton origins. At least two separate branches of the family came to the New World in the 17th Century... [more]

ALLOR French (Quebec)
Common Canadian spelling of the French surname Allard, reflecting the French pronunciation.

ARBOUR French (Quebec)
Variant of HARBOUR or possibly a variant of Harbaud or HERBERT.

AREL French (Quebec)

ARSENEAU French (Quebec)
Variant of ARSENAULT.

BARBON French (Quebec)
Derived from the nickname barbon meaning "old codger" as well as referring to a "confirmed bachelor".

BELONGER French (Quebec)
variant of French Belanger or Boulanger

BENETEAU French (Quebec)

BERUBE French (Quebec)

BINETTE French (Quebec)
Altered spelling of French Binet, a short form of ROBINET, a pet form of ROBERT... [more]

BISSONNETTE French (Quebec)
North American spelling of French Bissonet, a topographic name from a diminutive of Old French buisson meaning "bush, scrub".

BORDELAIS French (Quebec)

BOULARD French (Quebec), French (Acadian)
???

BRUNETTE French (Quebec)
Variant of Brunet, reflecting the French Canadian pattern of pronouncing the final -t, which is not pronounced in metropolitan French.

CASTONGUAY French (Quebec)
From a combination of GASTON and Guay, the name of a 17th-century French immigrant to Quebec, Canada.

CHRÉTIEN French, French (Quebec)
French form of CHRISTIAN.

DAGENAIS French (Quebec)
Denotes a person originally from the prefecture of Agen in southwestern France.

DALLAIRE French (Quebec)
From the given name Allaire, an older form of HILAIRE.

DENONCOURT French (Quebec)
Possibly a habitational name.

DEROSIA French (Anglicized), French (Quebec)
Anglicised form of DESROSIERS.

DESLAURIERS French (Quebec)
A topographic name for someone living among laurels, a combination of the fused preposition and plural definite article des ‘from the’ + the plural of Old French lorier ‘laurel’.

DESNOYERS French (Quebec)
Means "of the walnut trees", from French word "noyer", meaning walnut. "Des noyers" literally translates to "the walnuts".

DESRUISSEAUX French, French (Quebec)
Topographic name for someone who lived in an area characterized by streams, from the fused preposition and plural definite article des meaning "from the" and ruisseaux (plural of ruisseau) meaning "stream".

DEVIN French (Quebec)

DOCHIN French (Quebec)

DUBAY French (Quebec)

DUCHARME French (Quebec)

DUQUETTE French (Quebec)

FARAND English (Canadian), French (Quebec)
Derived from the given name FARIMOND or from the French word ferrer meaning "to be clad in iron" or "to shoe a horse".

FORTIN French (Quebec), French

FOUQUEREAU French (Quebec)
Jean Fouquereau was born on November 6, 1617, in Anjou, Isère, France, his father, Louis, was 23 and his mother, Catherine, was 20. He married Renee Bataille on December 31, 1639, in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France... [more]

GATINEAU French (Quebec)
Unknown

GUERARD French (Quebec), French (Acadian)

HÉDOUIN French (Quebec), French (Acadian)

HOSTAIN French (Quebec), French (Acadian)

JOLICOEUR French (Quebec), Haitian Creole
From Old French joli "joyful, cheerful" and cuer "heart". It was originally a nickname for a cheerful person. This was a frequent French Canadian secondary surname (or dit name).

LAFLAMME French (Quebec)
Means "The Flame" in French.

LAFLÈCHE French (Quebec)
A French-Canadian secondary surname from "Richer dit Laflèche," used independently since 1746. Laflèche is derived from the French town of La Flèche, in the former province of Anjou.

LAFRAMBOISE French, French (Quebec)
Means "raspberry" in French. Most carriers of this surname descend from Joseph Frye, an English colonist from Kittery, Maine, United States, who was captured in an Indian raid in 1695 during King William's War and taken to New France by the First Nations and was baptized into the Catholic faith in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

LAMARÉE French (Quebec)

LAROY French (Cajun, Rare, Archaic), French (Quebec)
Variant of LEROY.

LAVERDIERE French (Quebec)
Said to be a locational or occupational name related to land and greenery. Related to the Cauchons, descended from Quebec. A noble Paris woman was sent to Quebec for marriage in the 17th century.

LAVIOLETTE French, French (Quebec), French (Acadian)
A secondary surname, associated with some forty family names in Canada and also used independently since 1698, a nickname from the flower violette ‘violet’, with the definite article la. In feudal France it was a name given to soldiers and domestic servants.

LEDUC French (Quebec)

LEMERISE French (Quebec)

LEMOINE French, French (Quebec)
Means "The Monk" in French. LEMOINE is also an English given name derived from this surname.

LEVIN Jewish, Lithuanian, Belarusian, German, Russian, French (Quebec, Anglicized), Various
As a Lithuanian Jewish and Belarusian Jewish name, it is a Slavicized form of LEVY. As a German and German Jewish name, it is derived from the given name LEVIN... [more]

LINCOURT French (Quebec)
Possibly a habitational name.

LOUBIER French (Quebec), French (Acadian)

MORISSETTE French (Quebec), Haitian Creole

NORMANDIN French (Quebec, ?)

OUELLETTE French (Quebec)
Canadian spelling of French (Norman and Champenois) Ouilet, from a Frenchified form of Willet, a pet form of WILLIAM.

PHÉNIX French (Quebec)
French Canadian variant of PHOENIX.

PHENIX French (Quebec, Anglicized)
Either (i) an anglicization of French Canadian Phénix, literally "phoenix", probably originally a nickname of now lost import; or (ii) a different form of FENWICK.

RANCOURT French (Quebec)
Habitational name from places in France named Rancourt.

RIVIERE French, French (Quebec), French (Acadian)
Possibly from the French word meaning "river"

SABOURIN French (Quebec), French (Huguenot)
Southern French surname, originally a nickname for a pleasant or amiable person, from a diminutive of sabor meaning "flavor, taste" (Old French saveur). The Huguenots brought this surname to England, and from there it may have been introduced to North America.

ST-GELAIS French (Quebec)
From the French place name Saint-Gelais which was allegedly named for a 5th-century bishop of Poitiers. The name Gelais is a variant of GÉLASE.

THEROUX French (Quebec)
Southern French (Théroux): of uncertain origin; perhaps a topographic name for someone living by "the wells", from a plural variant of Occitan théron "well".

TRANCHEMONTAGNE French (Quebec)

TURCAT French, French (Quebec)
Means "Turkman"

VADEBONCŒUR French (Quebec)
From the French phrase va de bon cœur meaning "go with a good (merry) heart". This was a secondary surname, common among soldiers in colonial French Canada, which has been adopted as a principal surname.

VAILLANCOURT French (Quebec)
Possibly a variant of Valencourt. This is the surname of a noble family who probably lived near Willencourt.

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