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Dubois

Updated February 20, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

French and English (Norman and Huguenot) : topographic name for someone who lived in a wood, from the fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’ + French bois ‘wood’ (see Bois). In both England and America the name has been translated as Wood.

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