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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name, with the preposition de, from any of several places named (Le) Temple, from Latin templum, denoting a settlement of the Knights Templar. The name is also found in Germany, taken there by a family which fled from France in 1789.

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