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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Altered spelling of French Chichoisne, a nickname for an argumentative or quarrelsome person, from Old French chicoisne ‘quibbler’, ‘carper’.
  • A bearer of this name from Anjou is documented in Montreal in 1670. A family with the secondary surname Dozois or Dausois is documented from 1717.

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