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Cadet

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

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern French : nickname from Old Occitan cadet, ‘small dog’, or perhaps from Gascon capdet, a term designating the youngest member of a family (however, this term is not recorded in French until the 15th century).

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