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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from any of various places, in Ariège, Gers, Moselle, Vaucluse, for example, named in Old French with garde ‘watch’, ‘protection’, with the definite article la. This is found as a French Canadian secondary surname, which has also been used independently since 1733.

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