Lapointe Family History
Lapointe Name Meaning
French: apparently a nickname for a soldier, from Old French
pointe ‘point (of a lance)’. Compare Lance. In Canada
this is recorded as a secondary surname (from 1693 in Montreal), which
has also been used independently since 1710.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Lapointe Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lapointe families
 92 - 181  31 - 91 |
 1 - 30  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lapointe Family Origin
Lapointe Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Lapointe
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Lapointe Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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