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dufault Name Meaning and History

French: altered spelling of Dufau, a topographic name for someone who lived near a prominent beech tree or in a beech wood, from Occitan fau ‘beech’ (from Latin fagus), with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dufault Families in the US in 1920
Number of dufault families
 61-120
 21-60
 1-20
 0
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