Family name origins & meanings
- French : topographic name from champeau ‘little field’, or a habitational name from any of various places called Champeaux, for example in Deux-Sèvres, Manche, and Seine-et-Marne.
- A Champaux or Champoux, also called Jolicoeur, from Périgord was recorded in Bécancour, Quebec, in 1680.
