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Pages in category "French-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,769 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Surnames of British Isles origin. It includes Surnames of British Isles origin that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
This category is for surnames found in the English language Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. ...
English surnames of Norman origin; F. John Farnfold; FitzAlan; FitzGerald (surname) French (surname) G. Gaines (surname) Gilbert (surname) Gosselin; Grosvenor ...
Pages in category "Surnames of French origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 462 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Beginning in the late 1500s and peaking in the wake of the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685), French Protestant refugees from France, the Huguenots, brought surnames like Dubarry (Aquitaine), Blanchard (whole France), Duhamel (Normandy, Picardy) and Dupuy (Aquitaine) into the English namespace, when the historical record shows these names had not been present prior to the fifteenth century.
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-ell (English spelling for French -el, diminutive) [citation needed]-el (Northern French and Occitan, French -eau) [citation needed]-ema (Suffix of Frisian origin, given by Napoleon Bonaparte who used suffixes like these to keep a record of people's origins within the Netherlands) [citation needed]-ems [citation needed]