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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from Lachat in Savoy.
  • French : possibly from French l’achat, literally ‘the purchase’; a nickname denoting someone who acquired property by a purchase (within a family), as opposed to an inheritance.
  • French : possibly a variant of Lechat, a nickname from le chat ‘the cat’.

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