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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from any of numerous places named Les Fosses (from Latin fossa ‘hole’, ‘hollow’). This was a secondary surname in Canada, especially for Laspron, but also Lacharité and St. Louis.
  • French : habitational name for someone a place called Les Fossés (from Latin fossates ‘ditches’, ‘trenches’).

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