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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : possibly an occupational name from Old French fripier, frappier ‘second-hand dealer’.
  • Bearers of the name, originally from La Rochelle and Poitou, arrived before 1668 in Quebec city.

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