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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from Loupes in Gironde, or La Loupe in Eure-et-Loir.
  • French : possibly a nickname from Old French loupe ‘grimace’, ‘sticking-out tongue’, denoting, Morlet suggests, someone who mocked other people by grimacing.

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