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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a pet form of the Germanic personal name Warinwald, composed of the elements war(in) ‘guard’ + waldan ‘to govern’.
  • A bearer of this name from Poitou was in Quebec city by 1663.

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