Provençals lastnames

Here's a little list of some Provençals lastnames :

Carbonnel
Mistral (Mistrau)
Pignoly
Villemus
Sade (comme le Marquis)
Bagnoly
Aubert
Aramand
Roumanille (Roumaniho)
Payant
Maurel
Cayol
Berenger
Berenguier
Lan
Rey (peut signifier : Roi)
Coulomb
Collombon
Jourdan
Michel, Miqueu (Miquèu)
Pascal
Daumas
Pagnol (Panhol)
Caire (singifie : Côté, Coin)
Reynier
Andrau
Reynoard
Manent
Aubanel (Aubanèu)
Reyne
Jaubert
Dozol
Fabre
Riquier
Giéra (Giera)
Cresp
Carlavan
Agnel
Imbert
Chanterel
Givaudan
Honnorat (peut signifier : Honoré)
Courenq
Roman (Rouman)
Barthelemy
Vaisse
Rigaud (signifie : Rouge-Gorge)
Mouret
Pourcel
Carbonnel
Moucadel
Barjavel
Amargier
Colombier
Flour (signifie : Fleur)
Allibert
Coquillat
Mauras
Blanc
Martin
Brun
Faure
Jouve
Negrel
Castel
Verlaque (Verlac)
Joubert
Mouren
Andrieu (Andriéu)
Sarrazin
Agnel

Actually waiting for more and for your impressions. :D

http://forcoprouvencalo.wordpress.co...ms-provencaux/

Juste une remarque : Joubert n'a rien de spécifiquement provençal. Ses deux pôles de diffusion sont le Centre-Ouest Atlantique et la région de Lyon. Il est plutôt moins présent en zone occitane qu'ailleurs.

Jaubert est par contre essentiellement méridional.

Aubert est fréquent en Provence mais tout autant en Auvergne, en Normandie et en Lorraine, alors...

Tu peux aussi ajouter Granier, caractéristique du Midi méditerranéen, version locale du Grenier d'oïl.

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Actually waiting for more and for your impressions. :D

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Interesting. :thumb001:

Well, my impression is that I find most surnames very similar to Catalan ones at first sight. ;)

The ones ending in -el, which have an equivalent ending in -ell:

Carbonnel = Carbonell
Maurel = Maurell
Aubanel = Albanell
Chanterel = Cantarell
Pourcel = Porcell
Negrel = Negrell
Castel = Castell

Some diphthonguizing in -ier don't diphthonguize in Catalan:

Berenguier = Berenguer
Reynier = Renyer or Renyé
Riquier = Riquer
Colombier = Colomer or Colomé
Andrieu = Andreu

Some which just keep the syllable-closing l's instead of changing it to u:

Aubert = Albert
Miquèu = Miquel
Daumas = Dalmàs
Rigaud = Rigalt
Mauras = Malràs
Aubanel = Albanell

Some that have final n-dropping in Catalan:

Jourdan = Jordà
Martin = Martí
Brun = Bru
Roman = Romà

Some others that are identical or close:

Cayol = Callol
Rey = Rei
Coulomb = Colom
Pascal = Pasqual
Manent = Manent
Reyne = Reina
Fabre = Fabra
Imbert = Imbert
Mouret = Muret
Blanc = Blanc
Joubert = Jovert

And then, there are some which exist as Catalan words but are not surnames here (as far as I know):

Pignoly = Pinyolí
Bagnoly = Banyolí
Pagnol = Panyol
Caire = Caire
Mistral = Mestral


And that's all. :)

Very interesting Count Arnau ! I think that some of our names can be from Catalan origins ! for exemple : Raimond Bérenger IV de Prouvènço (en Català : Ramon Berenguer), was one of our count who was Catalan, he made the Catalan's arms Provençals arms, and he create the city of Barcilouneto (in homage of Barcilouno ; Barcelona !).

Another proof of the Provençal-Catalan brotherhood :D

(PS : Can you post your response in the comments of the blog please, it can be interesting for the lectors ;) thanks).

I am officially part provençal now ;)

Last names in my father's family (Drôme) :

Pascal
Lazare
Armand
Bordel
Brun

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Originally Posted by Portukalos

Last names in my father's family (Drôme) :

Pascal
Lazare
Armand
Bordel
Brun

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Merci pour cette liste, cela me rappelle également le nom : Borel.

Il y a également Muraire (le nom d'un acteur célèbre... Raimu :))

3 of the lastnames are found in your list by the way (Pascal , Brun , Aramand).