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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French Canadian : secondary surname from l’arrivée ‘the arrival’ or ‘one who has arrived’, i.e. a newcomer.
  • This name is first found in Boucherville, Quebec, in 1673, taken there from Saintonge, France.

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