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  2. List of French Americans - Wikipedia

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    Franco-American Flag [citation needed]. French Americans are U.S. citizens or nationals of French descent and heritage. The majority of Franco-American families did not arrive directly from France, but rather settled French territories in the New World (primarily in the 17th and 18th centuries) before moving or being forced to move to the United States later on (see Quebec diaspora and Great ...

  3. Category:Surnames of French origin - Wikipedia

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    French-language surnames (1 C, 1,729 P) N. Norman-language surnames (29 P) O. Occitan-language surnames (41 P) P. Surnames of Piedmontese origin (2 P) S.

  4. Category:French-language surnames - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "French-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,735 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  5. Surnames by country - Wikipedia

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    Female surnames are most often in the Katharevousa genitive case of a male name. This is an innovation of the Modern Greek state; Byzantine practice was to form a feminine counterpart of the male surname (e.g. masculine Palaiologos, Byzantine feminine Palaiologina, Modern feminine Palaiologou).

  6. Lists of most common surnames in European countries

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    The 50 most frequent surnames in Portugal are listed below. [53] [54] [55] A number of these surnames may be preceded by of/from (de, d') or of the/from the (do, da, dos, das) as in de Sousa, da Costa, d'Oliveira. Those elements are not part of the surname and are not considered in an alphabetical order.

  7. List of family name affixes - Wikipedia

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    -ouf (French), French spelling of Arabic names ending with -ūf [citation needed]-ouf, Norman-French spelling of surnames of Anglo-Scandinavian origin or West Germanic origin ending with -ulf or -wulf-oui (French), French spelling of Arabic names, English spelling -wi [citation needed]-ous [citation needed]

  8. Luce (name) - Wikipedia

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    Luce is an American, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French and Italian surname. [citation needed] It is also a French and Italian feminine given name, variant of Lucia and Lucy, or masculine name, variant of Luc (given name).

  9. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    Several thousand place names in the United States have names of French origin, some a legacy of past French exploration and rule over much of the land and some in honor of French help during the American Revolution and the founding of the country (see also: New France and French in the United States).