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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from the southern city of Limoges (Haute-Vienne), or various other places so named.
  • French : According to Debrabandere, this is also a nickname from Old French limoge, ‘pheasant’, or perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a poulterer.
  • French : A Limoges from Bordeaux, France was in Montreal by 1698.

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