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Posted on 2/5/22 at 4:22 pm to CitizenK
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Here is the list of actual Cajun surnames
LINK
We have one family surname that never shows up on those list. I don't know a ton on that family line going back before Erath; wonder if it was just another French guy that married into a cajun family.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 4:24 pm to Bamafig
Barras? No?
Posted on 2/5/22 at 4:28 pm to hojo
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Fontenot where I grew up
You must be from Ville Platte.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 4:31 pm to PineyWoodsHog
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Good many Beauchamps in Avoyelles Parish and surrounding areas. Along with Broussard, Richard, Guidry, Fontenot, etc
You must be thinking of another Parish. Living in Avoyelles Parish for over 40 years and I have never met a Beauchamps. Also there are very few of the other names you mentioned in Avoyelles Parish, maybe more Evangeline Parish.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 4:40 pm to USMCguy121
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Up in Maine a few years back my gf's last name was Thibodeau. And yes it was spelled like that.
The x were added here in most names
Posted on 2/5/22 at 4:47 pm to Y.A. Tittle
German Wagensbach = Waguespack in French
Posted on 2/5/22 at 6:30 pm to FlagLake
Lived and worked in the area (Rapides, Grant, Avoyelles, etc) over 25 years and knew many people with all of those names and about every other coonass name under the sun. Eight of those years was as a CO at the state prison. Some of them stick out more than others, me being from Arkansas originally and not knowing how to pronounce. I don't know why you've not met any of them. Sounds like you need to get out more my brotha. 
Another common name was Bordelon. That one do anything for ya?
Oh, and Couvillion.
Another common name was Bordelon. That one do anything for ya?
Oh, and Couvillion.
This post was edited on 2/5/22 at 6:36 pm
Posted on 2/5/22 at 6:31 pm to Bamafig
Hebert, Guidry, Becnel, Bourgeois
This post was edited on 6/20/22 at 9:50 pm
Posted on 2/5/22 at 6:33 pm to Yewkindewit
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Bourgeois
My maternal grandparents.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 6:44 pm to BigDropper
The pharmacist at the A&P Futurestore in Mandeville was a Bourgeois. Seemed like a really good guy.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 6:47 pm to NorthEndZone
Thibodeaux should be on that list. They have 11 of them where I work.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 6:50 pm to cheobode
Some of them IDK if they're Cajun or just French: Necaise, Favre, Nicaud, Laurent, Mouton, Cousin, Delaune...
This post was edited on 2/5/22 at 6:50 pm
Posted on 2/5/22 at 6:50 pm to USMEagles
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A&P Futurestore in Mandeville was a Bourgeois
My aunt (Bourgeois) married an architect (Sperrier) who designed stores for A&P.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:00 pm to BigDropper
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designed stores for A&P
I had my eye on that job, but in the end I just couldn't leave the deli staff to handle that big Chisesi Ham sale without me .
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:08 pm to LSUgusto
quote:Correct. Same with a name like Loup.
Fontenot is French, but not of Acadian roots, so it’s technically not a Cajun surname. Just a French Louisiana one.
What I find interesting are the German surnames that damn near feel Cajun or French because they talk and act like coonasses now
Hymel, Waguespack, etc
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:09 pm to Texas ellessu
quote:Germans
D'ville is thick with Waguespacks.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:14 pm to Texas ellessu
quote:If your name is Waguespack you are German
German Wagensbach = Waguespack in French
A bunch of Germans moved here in the 1700s for the land grab that was offered. The coonasses couldn’t speak German so they butchered all the spellings and eventually the names changed
Hymel is another good example of this
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:51 pm to LSUfanatic
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Cheramie Saunier Bouvier Dantin Dau-tan Duet Du-ay Plaisance
Bayou Lafourche, and you forgot Doucet
Posted on 2/5/22 at 7:53 pm to tigerpimpbot
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Soileau
Is not actually cajun. The first Soileaus came directly from France.
This post was edited on 2/5/22 at 7:55 pm
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