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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Breton : Lively

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : variant of Vial.
  • German (Silesia) : habitational name from a place named Viau near Liegnitz.
  • A Viau from Brittany is documented in Montreal in 1665, with the secondary surname <xref>Lesperance</xref>.

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