Family name origins & meanings
- French : from the bird name loriot, ‘oriole’. This is a frequent name in LA.
- Italian : probably a topographic name from rio ‘stream’, ‘brook’, with the definite article lo.
- As Loriot or Lauriot this name has been recorded in Canada since 1670, taken there by immigrants from Limoges, France, who settled in Saint-François-de-Sales-de-Neuville, Quebec.