Berube
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Frequency: (2381)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
French (Bérubé): habitational name from some minor place named with Old French bel ru ‘beautiful stream’, with the subsequent pleonastic addition of bé, variant of bel ‘beautiful’.
FOREBEARS: A person called Bérubé from Normandy, France, is recorded in L'Islet, Quebec, in 1679.
GIVEN NAMES: French 13%. Normand (15), Armand (8), Emile (8), Andre (7), Lucien (4), Pierre (4), Adelard (2), Amedee (2), Berthe (2), Fleurette (2), Gaetan (2), Marcel (2).
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