About the Larivière surname
The surname Larivière has a primarily toponymic formation. The surname refers to a river or to a residence established near a waterway. The surname may therefore originally have identified a person by place of origin, residence, or a feature of the landscape. Larivière 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 “lariviere”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
La-riv-jèr/laʁivjɛʁ/