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The desfosses Surname

desfosses Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from any of numerous places named Les Fosses (from Latin fossa ‘hole’, ‘hollow’). This was a secondary surname in Canada, especially for Laspron, but also Lacharité and St. Louis.
  2. (Des Fossés): habitational name for someone a place called Les Fossés (from Latin fossates ‘ditches’, ‘trenches’).

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Distribution of desfosses Families in the US in 1920
Number of desfosses families
 8-13
 3-7
 1-2
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