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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : nickname for someone with an unusually pale complexion, from a derivative of Old French blou ‘blue’.
  • A Blouin with the secondary surname La Violette, from the Poitou region of France, is recorded in Château Richer, Quebec, in 1669.

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