Family name origins & meanings
- French : occupational name for a wine grower, from a diminutive of vin, a noun derivative of Old French viner ‘to make wine’.
- A Vinet from the Saintonge region of France is documented in Montreal in 1666, with the secondary surname Larente. Other known secondary surnames include <xref>Laliberte</xref>, Préville, and Souligny.