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Barreau

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : possibly a variant of Barreur, an agent derivative of barrer ‘to bar’, ‘to close or block off’, hence possibly an occupational name for a jailer or doorkeeper.

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