Family name origins & meanings
- Americanized form of French La Resiliere, which may perhaps be a habitational name from la Roussillière in Rhône.
- Bearers of this name are descended from Jacques La Resiliere (c.1640–c.1687), a French Huguenot in the Netherlands. His son Nicholas (1668–99) came to Staten Island, NY, in the early 1690s.