Giguere is used as a family name or surname in many languages. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Giguere
No. of characters: 7
Origin: Unknown
Meaning: Name worn in the Eure. Varientes: Giguerre, Giguaire, Giguiere. It should probably relate to these names and forms Giguel Giguelle, found in the same department. All these names seem to come from the old French jitter, which designated the twelfth century a kind of three-stringed violin. One can think of a jitter player, or a dancer, possibly someone agitated (= dance of jigging verb, stir). However, one can not neglect the possible deformation of Giquel Breton Christian name (see Gicquel).

How popular is Giguere?

Despite the fact that the number of Giguere bearers increased by 1.479408 per cent in 2010 US census to 2538 since 2000, the surname slipped by 725 spots and ranked at 12255. The last name was found in around 9 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 97.12 97.2
Hispanic or Latino 1.46 1.28
Others 0.79 0.92
Black 0.28 0

Giguere Namesakes

  • Alain Giguère, Member of the Canadian House of Commons
  • Alain Giguère, Member of the Canadian House of Commons
  • Pierre Giguère, Politician
  • Alain Giguère, Member of the Canadian House of Commons
  • Edi Giguere, Costume designer
  • Louis Giguère, Political figure
  • Jean-Sébastien Giguère, Ice hockey goaltender
  • Jocelyne Giguère, Sophie Desmarais' mother
  • Maude Giguère, Actress
  • Pascale Giguere, Musical Artist

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