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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) or French : habitational name, with fused preposition d(e), principally for someone from Arras in northern France, or possibly from Arras-en-Lavedan (Hautes Pyrénées) or Arras-sur-Rhône (Ardèche).

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