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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French Canadian : secondary surname associated with Fremont, Lagnier, and Poitevin, from tendresse ‘gentleness’, ‘tenderness’, with the definite article la, applied to a person with these qualities, or perhaps ironically to someone spectacularly lacking in them.

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