Family name origins & meanings
- French : probably a derogatory nickname, from a derivative of the regional term drouiller ‘to defecate’, which also has various figurative senses.
- French : re-formation of the habitational name Drouillac, from a place so named in Corrèze.
- French : The name was present in Canada as early as 1689; the marriage of a man of this name from Saintonge is recorded in Quebec city in 1698.