About the Gagné surname
The surname Gagné is associated with an occupational formation. Gagné is related to the old French verb meaning “to gain” or “to earn”; its precise historical sense may vary by family. Occupational surnames often became hereditary after first identifying a person by trade or function. Gagné contains one or more diacritics in its canonical spelling. Historical or normalized indexes may omit them, which is useful to keep in mind during genealogical research. In the normalization used for some LAFRANCE searches, the surname is also matched through the form “gagne”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Ga-gné/ɡaɲe/