About the Lévesque surname
The surname Lévesque is associated with an older descriptive nickname. Lévesque corresponds to “the bishop” and may have begun as a nickname connected with a role, function, or symbolic association. Names of this type generally began as nicknames used to distinguish a person by a physical, personal, or social characteristic. Lévesque 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 “levesque”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Lé-vèsk/levɛsk/