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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : variant of Desautels.
  • French : topographic name, with the preposition d(e), for someone who lived by a small church, from autel ‘altar’ (Latin altare).
  • German : nickname from Swabian dautel ‘indecisive or clumsy man’.
  • Dutch and North German : from a pet form of Daut.

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