as a Last Name
- 10,817
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Paquette
Meaning & Origins
French: 1. from the personal name Pa(s)quet, a pet form of Pascal. 2. from Old French pacquet ‘bundle (of faggots)’, a diminutive of paque ‘parcel’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a gatherer or seller of firewood or kindling. In North America, spellings of surnames in -ette are not normally feminine, but reflects the practice of sounding the final -t, which is not the usual practice in European French.
| 3,326th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 10,817
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Vermont
- has the most people named Paquette per capita
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