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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name from any of numerous places in northern France named Monceau (plural Monceaux), from Old French moncel ‘little mountain’, Late Latin monticellum, a diminutive of mons ‘mountain’, genitive montis.

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