Family name origins & meanings
- Altered spelling of French Sévigné, a habitational name from a place in Ille-et-Vilaine, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Sabinius, a derivative of Latin Sabinus (see Sabin) + the locative suffix -acum.
- A Sévigny from Brittany is documented in Neuville, Quebec, in 1695; he bore the secondary surname <xref>Lafleur</xref>.