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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Gélinas) : possibly from an augmentative of Old French gelin or geline ‘hen’. It is often found in Canada with Lacourse as a secondary surname.
  • A bearer of the name from Saintonge was in Quebec city by 1666.

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