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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a diminutive of Occitan peloke ‘peel’, Gascon peloko ‘grain-husk’, probably applied as a nickname for a miser or a poor wretch.
  • A Peloquin, also called Crédit, from the Poitou region of France is documented in Quebec City in 1690.

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