Last name origins & meanings:
- Southern French: from Occitan l’abat ‘the priest’.
Compare Labbe.
- Southern French: topographic name for someone who lived in a
valley, from Gascon dialect la bat ‘the valley’, equivalent of
French Lavalle.
- Southern French: A bearer of the name from Bordeaux, France, was established at Trois
Rivières, Quebec, by 1653.
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