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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant spelling of French Jaudouin, from the Germanic personal name Gaudwin, a compound of the tribal name Gaut (see Joslin) + wini, ‘friend’.
  • A bearer of the name from the Poitou region of France is documented in Montreal in 1666.

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