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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from a diminutive of Duc ‘duke’, hence a nickname for someone who gave himself airs and graces or an occupational nickname for someone who worked in the household of a duke.
  • French : Americanized (NH) spelling of French Duchamp.

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