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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : nickname for someone who traveled on foot, from an Old French variant of peon ‘pedestrian’.
  • A Pion, also called <xref>Lafontaine</xref>, from the Touraine region of France, is recorded in Quebec City in 1673.

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