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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : variant of Tostain or Toutain, a derivative of the Old Norse personal name þórsteinn (see Thurston).
  • A Toutant from the Orléans region of France is documented in Champlain, Quebec, in 1686.

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