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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from either of two places in Normandy called Houlettes, named with a diminutive of houle ‘cave’ (see Houle 2).
  • French : from a diminutive of houe ‘hoe’, a metonymic occupational name for an agricultural worker or someone who made or sold hoes.

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