The demarais Surname
demarais Name Meaning and History
French: habitational name, with the preposition de, for
someone from any of several minor places in northern France named
Marais, from Old French mareis ‘marsh’. In some cases, the name
may simply have been topographical.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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