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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of French Canadian Lajambe ‘the leg’ (a nickname for someone with some peculiarity of the leg), or Lachamp ‘the field’. Compare Deschamps. This name is found chiefly in NY.

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