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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : topographic name for someone who lived near an ash tree or ash wood, from Old French fraisne, fresne ‘ash’ (Latin fraxinus).
  • French : habitational name from a place in Vosges named Frain.

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