Number of patronymic descendants.

Popular french canadian names. Dagenais French Quebec Denotes a person originally from the prefecture of Agen in southwestern France. This French surname means pear tree or someone who lived close to a pear tree. It was pretty easy to adopt any last name you wished until 1474 when the king decreed that all last name changes had to.

53 rows A variation of the name Aurora. This Germanic name of French origin means powerful ruler. Get a list of first marriages of this family.

Here are the most frequent surnames in Your Folks. This Welsh surname means son of Hywel. Lord of the manor.

List of the most frequent surnames in Quebec and Canadian genealogy. From a combination of Gaston and Guay the name of a 17th-century French immigrant to Quebec Canada. Rose might have been baptized under Rose de Lima but she adopted Délima as her usual first name.

Others are far from the original ones such as Marie Josèphe changed to Josephte or Archange to Désanges. French Last Names The use of last names in France like in much of Europe didnt become necessary until the 11th century to differentiate between people with the same first name. This Scottish surname means red.

Aimé name Alain given name Albert given name. Chrétien French French Quebec French form of Christian. Lets consider composite first names which are more likely to vary than others.