Lefevre Family History
Lefevre Name Meaning
French (Lefèvre): occupational name for an ironworker or
smith, Old French fevre. One of the most common names in
France from an early date, this was taken to Britain and Ireland by
the Normans, by the French to Canada, and by the Huguenots (with the
variant form Lefebre) to colonial America and elsewhere. In
Canada, there were so many bearers of this name that many nicknames
and epithets (secondary surnames or ‘dit’ names) were employed to
distinguish between one family and another. Thus, for example, the
Lefevre called Descoteaux became Hill by translation,
and the Lefevre called Boulanger became Baker. Since
fevre ‘smith’ had ceded as a general vocabulary word to
forgeron in French, the meaning of the name was no longer
understood; in some cases it was reconstructed as Lafeve (Latin
faba) and translated as Bean.
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Name Distribution of Lefevre Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Lefevre families
 31 - 60  11 - 30 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Lefevre families
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52 - 101 18 - 51 |
1 - 17 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lefevre families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Lefevre Family Origin
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Lefevre Family Occupations
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