Lapierre Family History

French Walloon and Flemish: topographic name with fused French feminine definite article la for someone who lived on a patch of stony soil or by a large outcrop of rock from Old French pierre ‘stone rock’ (compare Pierre); or a habitational name from any of various places called Lapierre or La Pierre in France and Belgium (Wallonia) with the same meaning.

From French la pierre ‘the stone’ used as a nickname (often for a person named Pierre; see Pierre) or soldier's name and probably also as a metonymic occupational name for a quarryman or stone carver.

Compare Lapeer, Lapier, and Stone.