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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : topographic name from a diminutive of chagne ‘oak (tree)’, a regional variant of chêne (see Chene).
  • A bearer of the name from Tours is documented at Contrecoeur, Quebec, in 1678, with the secondary surname Larose.

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