Laveran

Transferred use of the French surname Laveran.

This is the second name of Képler Laveran Lima Ferreira, commonly known as Pepe is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Portuguese national team as a central defender.

The surname Laveran probably became popular as a first name thanks to the French Nobel Prize in Medicine Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran. Laveran discovered that protozoan parasites were the causative agent of malaria.