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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a diminutive of Janvre, which Morlet suggests may have been a nickname for the youngest son or child in a family, from jenvre.
  • A bearer of the name from the Poitou region of France is documented in Quebec City in 1680.

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