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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : apparently from medieval French poutre ‘young mare’, ‘filly’, though the reasons for its adoption as a surname are unclear. It is found chiefly in VT.
  • A Poutre from Valenciennes in France is documented in Quebec City in 1667, with the secondary surname <xref>Lavigne</xref>.

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