Family name origins & meanings
- French : from paiement ‘payment’, ‘sum given to pay off a debt’, hence a variant of Paye.
- A Payment, also called <xref>Laforest</xref>, from the lower Limousine region of France, is documented in Ange-Gardien, Quebec, in 1698. Another, with the secondary surname of <xref>Lariviere</xref>, came from the Poitou region of France.