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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : metonymic occupational name for a harness maker, saddler, or maker of armor, from Old French harneis ‘equipment’, ‘accoutrements (of a soldier or horse)’.
  • A Harnois from Normandy, France, is recorded in St. Augustin, Quebec, in 1670.

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