as a Last Name
- 8,537
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Lapointe
Meaning & Origins
French: apparently a nickname for a soldier, from Old French pointe ‘point (of a lance)’. Compare Lance. In Canada this is recorded as a secondary surname (from 1693 in Montreal), which has also been used independently since 1710.
| 3,598th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 8,537
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Maine
- has the most people named Lapointe per capita
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