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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Respelling of French Levasseur, a status name from Old French vasseor ‘vassal’ (a short form of vavasseur), with the generalized use of the feminine definite article la in place of the masculine le, which is characteristic of Canada and New England.

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