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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of French Le Dé, a nickname for a gambler, meaning ‘the die’.
  • The LA Ledets trace their ancestry perhaps to J.-F. Le Dée, who emigrated from Lille, France, c.1750. Another branch is descended from an Antoine Le Dé of west-central France (1780).

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