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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : perhaps from sire + roi ‘king’, a form of address, comparable to an ironic ‘your majesty’.
  • A Sirois, also called <xref>Duplessis</xref>, from Paris is documented in Rivière-Ouelle, Quebec, in 1714.

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