About the Ste-Marié surname
The surname Ste-Marié has an onomastic interpretation that still needs to be placed in the history of each family line. The form of Ste-Marié is compatible with French surname tradition. It may derive from an old given name, a place, a nickname, an occupation, or a regional variant; the historical form of the family line is needed to distinguish between these possibilities. This interpretation helps explain the formation of the surname without establishing the origin of any particular family line. The Saint, Sainte, St, or Ste construction in Ste-Marié 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 “stemarie”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Sint-mar-jé/sɛ̃tmaʁje/