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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : topographic name, with fused preposition and definite article des ‘from the’, for someone who lived by some group of small islands, from the plural of îlet ‘islet’.
  • In Canada this was a secondary surname associated with <xref>Huard</xref> and <xref>Couillard</xref>, and first used independently there in 1748.

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