About the Couturier-Labonté surname
The surname Couturier-Labonté is associated with an occupational formation. The surname is linked to an old occupational name associated with the work of a tailor. Occupational surnames often became hereditary after first identifying a person by trade or function. Couturier-Labonté is a compound or hyphenated surname. For a particular family line, early records can show whether this form was long established or resulted from the joining of two surnames later in the family's history. In the normalization used for some LAFRANCE searches, the surname is also matched through the form “couturier labonte”; this search variant can be useful when accents, spaces, or punctuation differ.
Pronunciation:
Kou-tur-jé-la-bon-té/kutyʁjelabɔ̃te/