About the Ste-Croix surname
The surname Ste-Croix is associated with a patronymic formation. Ste-Croix 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. The name therefore belongs to a tradition in which an ancestor's given name gradually became a hereditary surname. The Saint, Sainte, St, or Ste construction in Ste-Croix places the surname among forms often associated with French place-names or devotional naming traditions. In the normalization used for some LAFRANCE searches, the surname is also matched through the form “stecroix”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Sintk-roua/sɛ̃tkʁwa/