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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern French (Théroux) : of uncertain origin; perhaps a topographic name for someone living by ‘the wells’, from a plural variant of Occitan théron ‘well’.
  • A Theroux from Toulouse, France, is documented in Montreal in 1706 with the secondary surname Laferté.

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