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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern French : topographic name from an Occitan equivalent of voisinage ‘communal holdings’, perhaps, or a literal ‘neighbor’.
  • A Vezina, also documented as Voisinat, from the Aunis region of France is recorded in L’Ange Gardien, Quebec, in 1667.

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