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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name for someone from a place named Dugay, for example in Charente, Dordogne, and Rhône.
  • French : Spelling variant of Du Gué, a topographic name for someone who lived by a ford, gué.
  • French : A family from Autun named Du Gué was established in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, by 1672; and another, from Saintonge, was in Ange-Gardien by 1694.

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