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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from du moulin ‘from the mill’, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived at a mill, or, by extension, as an occupational name for a miller. In North America this name is particularly associated with Fonteneau (see Fontenot). See also Demoulin.

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