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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : altered spelling of Dufau, a topographic name for someone who lived near a prominent beech tree or in a beech wood, from Occitan fau ‘beech’ (from Latin fagus), with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’.

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