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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : from a very common short form of the personal name Pieter (see Peter).
  • French : variant of Picot.
  • A Piet, also called Trempe, from the Saintonge region of France arrived at Sorel, Quebec, in 1665. The secondary surnames Fresnière and <xref>Courville</xref> are also recorded.

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