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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : nickname for a plump person, from a diminutive of Old French rond ‘round’ (Latin rotundus).
  • The surname is attested around 1663 in Quebec; several families arrived slightly later from La Rochelle, France.

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