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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of waste land, Old French gast. Compare Gast.
  • This name is frequent in LA, where it is sometimes spelled Dugat. Most if not all bearers of it trace their origins to the Acadian exile of the 18th century.

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