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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : nickname for a well-tempered or genial person, from Old French bel ‘lovely’ + humeur ‘humor’, ‘disposition’.
  • As a secondary surname this is associated with the surnames Ardouin, Badeau, Blanche, Blosse, Bloze, Dupont, Janot, Montauban, Naudet, and Philippe.

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