The lapierre Surname
lapierre Name Meaning and History
French: topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of stony
soil or by a large outcrop of rock, from Old French pierre
‘stone’, ‘rock’ (Latin petra, from Greek), with the definite
article la, or a habitational name from various places named
Lapierre or La Pierre, with the same meaning. It may also have been a
metonymic occupational name for a quarryman or stone carver. In the
U.S. it is often translated as Stone.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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