French (Leveillé, L’Eveillé,
Léveillé): nickname from French l’éveillé
‘the awake’, ‘the alert’. One VT Civil War soldier so named used the
translation ‘Wideawake’ for his surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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