Family name origins & meanings
- French (Lefrançois) : literally ‘the French’ or ‘the Frenchman’, probably a regional name for someone who came from the Île de France. In the Middle Ages the French king held sway over a smaller territory than present-day France, and its boundaries tended to vary, but the Île de France was always at its center.
- French (Lefrançois) : from the personal name François, Latin Franciscus (see Francis).