Last name: LAPLANTE

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LAPLANTE : This last name is indexed 85,508 times on Geneanet!

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LAPLANTE : French:: 1: topographic name or perhaps a nickname (compare 2 below) or metonymic occupational name from plante ‘plant’ in Old French also ‘(nursery) plantation (of trees bushes)’ with fused feminine definite article la as a topographic name denoting someone who lived by a nursery or plantation (often one planted with vines); or a habitational name from any of the places in Loire and Vienne called La Plante. Compare Plante 2.2: soldier's name from la plante ‘the plant’.

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