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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Huguenot) : from Old French osier ‘osier’, ‘willow’, with the preposition d(e) ‘from’, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived near a plantation of willows, or perhaps as a metonymic occupational name for a basket maker.

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