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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Canadian French : unexplained. Possibly a variant of Breton Melin, a metonymic occupational name for a miller.
  • A Lemelin, called le Tourangeau, from Chartres, France, was in Quebec City from 1658.

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