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Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. The accuracy of these name definitions cannot be guaranteed.

Al' 'Espées French

Aries English, French, Dutch, Lombard
From the given name Aries.

Bareilles French (Rare)

Bareilles French, Occitan
Derived from the place name Bareilles, a village in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitania region of France. A famous bearer is the American musician and actress Sara Bareilles (1979-).

Bezzerides French (?), Italian (?), Spanish (?)

Casavantes French, Spanish, Basque
Topographic name composed of casa "house" + avant "ahead of forward" + the suffix -es, denoting one who lived in the house located at the beginning of a village. This surname has died out in France.

Collines French
French for "hillbanks".

Combès French
Either a topographic name from combe "narrow valley ravine" (see Combe ) or a habitational name from any of various places in southern France for example in Hérault named Combes.

Courcelles French
The name of several places in France, Belgium and Canada. In Middle French the word courcelle was used to describe a "small court" or a "small garden". The word is derived from the medieval Gallo-Romance and Gallo-Italian word corticella, which was formed from the Latin word cohors, meaning "court" or "enclosure", and the diminutive –icella.... [more]

Decazes French
The surname Decazes was first found in Gascony (French: Gascogne), an area of southwest France bordering Spain, that was part of the "Province of Guyenne and Gascony" prior to the French Revolution, where the family held a family seat in ancient times.... [more]

Degeneres French

Dejes French (?)

Demoines French, French (American)
Variant of Desmoines.

Desanges French (Rare)
Means "from the angels", possibly connected to the French title of the Virgin Mary Notre Dame des Anges, meaning "Our Lady of the Angels". Bearers of this surname include Louis William Desanges (1822-1905), an English artist of French descent, and French historian Jehan Desanges (1929-).

Descartes French

Deschenes French
"Chenes" is French for "oak tree". In French, "Des" means more than one. "Des"+ "Chenes"= Deschenes meaning "Many oak trees."

Desmoines French (Archaic), French (American)
An archaic French surname that begins in the US. It denotes a person who lived in places named Des Moines. From French meaning "from the monks" or "of the monks".

Despres French, Guernésiais

Des Roches French
Either a topographic name for someone living among rocks or a habitational name from any of several places named with this word, meaning "from the rocks" in French.

Destrempes French (Quebec)

Desvilles French

d'Orves French
Denoted someone from Orve, a commune in the Doubs department in eastern France.

Fiennes French

Gaines English, Norman, Welsh
English (of Norman origin): nickname for a crafty or ingenious person, from a reduced form of Old French engaine ‘ingenuity’, ‘trickery’ (Latin ingenium ‘native wit’). The word was also used in a concrete sense of a stratagem or device, particularly a trap.... [more]

Gardères French

Garrigues French, Provençal
This surname comes from Old Provençal garrique meaning "grove of holm oaks or kermes oaks."

Gilles French, Walloon
From the given name Gilles. Cognate of Giles.

Graves French
Topographic or habitational name derived from Old French grave "gravel".

Graves English, French, German
Derives from someone who had an occupation as a grave digger or a caretaker for a graveyard.

Guiles French
Of uncertain origin; it could be a variant of French Guill or of English Guile or Giles .

Hermès French
Either a topographic name for someone who lived in a deserted spot or on a patch of waste land from Occitan erm "desert waste" (from Greek erēmia) and the topographic suffix -ès, or from the given name Hermès.

Hugues French
From the given name Hugues.

Iles English (British), French
English (mainly Somerset and Gloucestershire): topographic name from Anglo-Norman French isle ‘island’ (Latin insula) or a habitational name from a place in England or northern France named with this element.

Irles French

Jaques English, Portuguese, Spanish, French
Derived from the given name Jacques.

Jules French
From a personal name (Latin Julius). The name was borne in the Middle Ages in honor of various minor Christian saints.

La Liveres French
Means 'the books' in French

Lannes French
From the French word landes meaning “heathlands” or “moorlands.” This was the surname of one of Napoleon’s marshals.

Lascelles French
French location name from Lacelle in Orne, northern France and referring to "small rooms or cells inhabited by monks".

Laures French, Luxembourgish

Limoges French
From the city and various places in France of the same name called Limoges.

Mendès French
French form of Mendes.

Mieles Italian, Spanish, French
Meaning "honey".

Rives French, Jewish
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from the Yiddish female personal name Rive a back-formation from Rivke (see Rifkin).... [more]

Roblès French
French form of Robles.

Roques French

Serres French
Altered form of "Serre"

St Georges French
“Saint George.”

Versailles French (Rare)
From the location of Versailles Yvelines near Paris.

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