About the Denis-Quimper surname
The surname Denis-Quimper is associated with a patronymic formation. Denis-Quimper is a compound surname. Its form combines several family-name elements; depending on the line, this may reflect a dit name, the joining of two surnames, or a more recent civil-status development. A patronymic formation of this kind shows how an older personal name could develop into a family name. Denis-Quimper 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 “denis quimper”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
De-ni-kin-pé/dənikɛ̃pe/