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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Tart.
  • French : metonymic occupational name for a maker and seller of fine pastries, from Old French tarte ‘tart’, ‘pastry’.
  • Possibly an altered form of Tartre, a regional variant of Tertre, a habitational name from a common place name meaning ‘height’, ‘hill’.
  • A Tartre with the secondary surname <xref>Lariviere</xref>, from the Saintonge region of France, is documented in Montreal in 1697.

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