French: nickname, originally d’Avout, for someone who was
born in the month of August (Old French auoust, from Latin
(mensis) Augustus, from the name of the first Roman emperor),
or who owed a feudal obligation to help with the harvest in that
month.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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