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The vaillant Surname

vaillant Name Meaning and History

French, English, and Dutch: nickname for a courageous or robust person, from Old French vaillant ‘sturdy’, ‘brave’, Middle English vailaunt, valiaunt, Middle Dutch valiant (the latter two being from Old French).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of vaillant Families in the US in 1920
Number of vaillant families
 8-13
 3-7
 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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