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arsenault Name Meaning and History

French: occupational name for a gunmaker, a seller of guns, or the keeper of an arsenal. The French word arsenal (Italian arsenale) is from Arabic dar a?s-?sina?a ‘house of fabrication’, ‘workshop’. This spelling of the surname, which is much more common in North America than in France, has been assimilated to that of other French surnames ending in -ault, for example Thibault.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of arsenault Families in the US in 1920
Number of arsenault families
 96-190
 33-95		 1-32
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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