Duplessis Family History
Duplessis Name Meaning
French: topographic name for someone who lived by a quickset fence Old French pleis (from Latin plexum past participle of plectere ‘plait weave’) with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’; or a habitational name for someone from Le Plessis the name of several places mainly in the northern part of France. This surname is also very common among African Americans. It is also found in Haiti (where it is rare) while the form Du Plessis is established in South Africa. Compare Duplisea and Duplissey .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022