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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : occupational name for the master of a guild or the supervisor of a ecclesiastical or secular administrative unit, from Middle High German techant, dechent ‘one in charge of ten men’ (Latin decanus).
  • French (also De Chant) : of uncertain derivation; perhaps an altered spelling of Deschamps (see Champ).

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