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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name, with the preposition de, for someone from any of the numerous places named Montigny, from Latin Montiniacum (formed either from a personal name or from a derivative of mons ‘mountain’ + the locative suffix -acum).

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