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Lefevre

in Maine

There are 16 people with the last name "Lefevre" in Maine.

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Ranking in Maine

NameRank
Lefevre 7,880
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  1. is 7,876th most common Lavorgna
  2. is 7,877th most common Laws
  3. is 7,878th most common Lebretton
  4. is 7,879th most common Lechner
  5. is 7,880th most common Lefevre
  6. is 7,881st most common Legge
  7. is 7,882nd most common Leibowitz
  8. is 7,883rd most common Lepine
  9. is 7,884th most common Lilienthal

Similar Names and Nicknames

Lefebvre, Lefever, Lafever, Lefevers, Lefeber, Lefebre, Lefebure, Lefeld, Lefevere, Lefere

Most Common First Names for Lefevre

Jean, Al, Beth, Carl, Chris, Christina, Christopher, Cindy, David

Meaning & History

French (Lefèvre): occupational name for an ironworker or smith, Old French fevre. One of the most common names in France from an early date, this was taken to Britain and Ireland by the Normans, by the French to Canada, and by the Huguenots (with the variant form Lefebre) to colonial America and elsewhere.In Canada, there were so many bearers of this name that many nicknames and epithets (secondary surnames or ‘dit’ names) were employed to distinguish between one family and another. Thus, for example, the Lefevre called Descoteaux became Hill by translation, and the Lefevre called Boulanger became Baker. Since fevre ‘smith’ had ceded as a general vocabulary word to forgeron in French, the meaning of the name was no longer understood; in some cases it was reconstructed as Lafeve (Latin faba) and translated as Bean.

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