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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : topographic name for someone who lived beside a path (rather than in a town), with fused preposition and article du ‘from the’ + French chemin ‘path’, ‘way’ (from Late Latin caminus, a word of Celtic origin).

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