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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Probably an altered spelling of French Depas, a habitational name from Pas-en-Artois, named with Latin passus ‘step’, ‘track’. Compare Depace 2. Alternatively, it may be an altered spelling of French Depasse, which is possibly a patronymic from a nickname from passe ‘sparrow’.

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