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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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