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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : variant of Supernant, a topographic name denoting a dwelling above the town of Nant, altered by folk etymology to conform to the French vocabulary word surprenant ‘surprising’.
  • A Surprenant from the Perche region of France is documented in Lapraire, Quebec, in 1678 with the secondary surname Sanssoucy.

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