Family name origins & meanings
- French : perhaps an occupational name, derived from testre, tétre, variants of tistre ‘to weave’. This name has been Americanized as Roe or Rowe.
- A Tetreault from the Poitou region of France is documented as Tétreau or Tétrault in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, in 1663. A secondary surname <xref>Ducharme</xref> is documented in 1700.