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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : probably a derogatory nickname, from a derivative of the regional term drouiller ‘to defecate’, which also has various figurative senses.
  • French : re-formation of the habitational name Drouillac, from a place so named in Corrèze.
  • French : The name was present in Canada as early as 1689; the marriage of a man of this name from Saintonge is recorded in Quebec city in 1698.

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