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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name, with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’, for someone from any of various minor places named Ray, in Inre, Mayenne, Nièvre, and Tarn.
  • French : Americanized spelling of Duret (see Durette).
  • French : habitational name for someone from a place called Dura.

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