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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. French: from an Old French personal name, a variant of Hilaire (see HilLary).
  2. An Allaire from Poitou, France, is recorded in Quebec city in 1662. Alexandre Allaire, a Huguenot refugee, brought the name to New Rochelle, NY, in 1680.