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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : diminutive of Sauvage.
  • A Sauvageau (also spelled Sauvageot) from the Anjou region of France is documented in Lachenaie, Quebec, in 1678, with the secondary surname Maisonneuve.

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