Daigre Family Crest & Name History

Heraldry is personal: arms associated with the Daigle surname were borne by specific families, and sharing the name does not mean sharing the blazon.

Meaning of the name

The last name Daigre is a variant form of Daigle, a well-known French family name. At root, the name means “Eagle / from L'Aigle”.

Before spelling was fixed, Daigle was also written Daigre. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes Deagle. The 2010 census count for Daigre in the United States was 602, good for rank 37,076. From 1891 to 2000, 412 births in France were registered under Daigre. Births under the name grew in the later decades.

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