American Family Name Origins:
Labadie
Frequency: (586)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. Southern French: topographical name from Occitan l'abadie ‘the abbey’ (see Abadie).
2. In some cases, possibly Italian (Sicily), of the same origin as 1.
GIVEN NAMES: French 7%. Emile (5), Antoine (2), Fabien, Jeanpaul, Monique.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
