About the Arpin-Potvin surname
The surname Arpin-Potvin has an onomastic interpretation that still needs to be placed in the history of each family line. The form of Arpin-Potvin is compatible with French surname tradition. It may derive from an old given name, a place, a nickname, an occupation, or a regional variant; the historical form of the family line is needed to distinguish between these possibilities. The general meaning of the surname should be distinguished from the history of each family that bears it. Arpin-Potvin is a compound or hyphenated surname. For a particular family line, early records can show whether this form was long established or resulted from the joining of two surnames later in the family's history. In the normalization used for some LAFRANCE searches, the surname is also matched through the form “arpin potvin”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Ar-pin-pot-vin/aʁpɛ̃pɔtvɛ̃/