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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : topographic name for someone who lived by a pear tree, poirier, from Old French perier.
  • A Poirier from Paris is recorded in Quebec City in 1655 with the secondary surname Bellepoire. Other associated secondary surnames include <xref>Lajeunesse</xref>, <xref>Langevin</xref>, <xref>Lafleur</xref>.

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