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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : topographic name from Old French bois ‘wood’ (see Bois) + clair ‘clear’, ‘light’, or in some cases possibly a habitational name for someone who lived at a place known as ‘Clair’s wood’, from the same second element as a personal name.

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