Leprince Name Origin and Family Crest

Leprince shows up clearly in national surname statistics. French civil records give 6,027 births under the name Leprince from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1961–1970. There were 311 such births in the 1890s and 663 in the 1990s. Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes. Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Leprince, so we research it family by family rather than guess.

Wikidata records Leprince as a French family name.

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Leprince, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms. Want more than a summary? See the Leprince family name pack.