Family name origins & meanings
- Southern French : topographic name, with fused preposition and definite article du, for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country rather than in a village, from Occitan mas ‘farmstead’, from Late Latin mansum, mansus.
- A family of this name from Charente is recorded in Île d’Orléans, Quebec, in 1667, and one from Tours in Quebec city in 1671.