Family name origins & meanings
- French (Beaupré) : topographic name from Old French beu ‘lovely’ + pred ‘meadow’. The nautical term beaupré ‘bowsprit’ may have given rise to its use as a secondary surname for a sailor.
- Beaupré is recorded as a secondary surname for Brisset. A Bonhomme, also called Beaupré, was in Detroit in 1724.