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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Laperrière) : topographic name from Old French perriere ‘quarry’ (Latin petraria), with the definite article la; or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example Laperrière-sur-Saône or La Perrière.

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