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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (southwestern) : topographic name from Occitan estatge, Old French estage ‘place of residence’; or a habitational name from places called Lestage (Landes, Lot-et-Garonne) or Lestages (Gironde).
  • A Lestage from Gascony, France, was in Quebec City before 1691.

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