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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly a respelling of French Louis or Loué, a nickname from Old French loé ‘famous’, ‘renowned’, or a habitational name from a place in Sarthe named Loué, from the Romano-Gallic estate name Laudiacum.

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