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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French and English : occupational name for a manservant, Middle English, Old French vaslet, val(l)et (a diminutive of vassal ‘serf’).
  • French : topographic name from a diminutive of val ‘valley’.

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