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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : diminutive of Chauve, a nickname for a bald man, from Old French chauf ‘bald’ (Latin calvus).
  • A Chauvin from the Maine region of France is documented in Quebec city in 1647, with the secondary surname Ste. Suzanne.

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