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Bisson

in Maine

There are 370 people with the last name "Bisson" in Maine.

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Ranking in Maine

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Bisson 555
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  1. is 551st most common Downs
  2. is 552nd most common Doyon
  3. is 553rd most common Oakes
  4. is 554th most common Woodbury
  5. is 555th most common Bisson
  6. is 556th most common Meserve
  7. is 557th most common Weymouth
  8. is 558th most common Macleod
  9. is 559th most common Doherty

Most Common First Names for Bisson

David, Michael, Richard, Paul, Joseph, Daniel, Jean, Lorraine, Raymond, Robert

Meaning & History

French:

  • 1. possibly from a diminutive of Old French bisse ‘fine linen’ (see Bisset).
  • 2. (Normandy) topographic name for someone who lived in an area of scrub land or by a prominent clump of bushes, from Old French buisson ‘bush’, ‘scrub’ (a diminutive of bois ‘wood’).

    • FOREBEARS A Bisson from the Maine region of France appears in the records of Quebec city for 1666, with the secondary surname Saint-Côme; another, from Comtat-Venaissin, is documented in Trois Rivières, Quebec, in 1669, with the secondary surname Provençal. Another line, from the Poitou region, is recorded in Quebec city in 1670, with the secondary surname Lépine.

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