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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from Old French chasse ‘hunt’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a huntsman or possibly, by ellipsis, for a gamekeeper, garde-chasse.
  • French : habitational name from a place in Sarthe named Chassé, from the Roman personal name Cacius + the locative suffix -acum.

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