Family name origins & meanings
- French : habitational name, with the preposition d(e), denoting someone from Avignon in Vaucluse. The place name is said to be derived from an obscure pre-Roman element, ab-ēn, + the Latin suffix -ionem.
- François Davignon, also called Beauregard (his place of origin unrecorded), married Madeleine Maillot at Chambly, Quebec, in 1719, and the surname was in VT by 1816. The descendants of this couple also bear the surnames names <xref>Devino</xref> and Burgor.