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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : occupational name for an embroiderer, brodeur, from broder ‘to embroider’.
  • A Brodeur from the Poitou region of France is recorded in Boucherville, Quebec, in 1679, with the secondary surname Lavigne.

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