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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : nickname for a fleet-footed or timid person, from lepre ‘hare’ (from Latin lepus ‘hare’, genitive leporis).
  • French (Lepré) : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow or field, Old French pred, with the definite article le.

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