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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : occupational name for a legal official, Old French voyer (Latin vicarius).
  • A Viger from Normandy, France, is documented in Montreal in 1666. The form Vigor is also found, with a secondary surname Galop.

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