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Pages in category "French-language surnames" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,727 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Pages in category "Surnames of French origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 455 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
French statesman Charles de Gaulle's surname may not be a traditional French name with a toponymic particule, but a Flemish Dutch name that evolved from a form of De Walle meaning "the wall". In the case of nobility, titles are mostly of the form [title] [ particle ] [name of the land]: for instance, Louis, duc d'Orléans ("Louis, duke of ...
Names starting with O' and Mac/Mc were originally patronymic. Of the names above, with the exception of Smith and Walsh, all originally began with O' or Mac/Mc but many have lost this prefix over time. Mac/Mc, meaning Son, and Ó, meaning Little (or Descendant), are used by sons born into the family.
Pages in category "French masculine given names" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 342 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Many double-barrelled names are written without a hyphen, causing confusion as to whether the surname is double-barrelled or not. Notable persons with unhyphenated double-barrelled names include politicians David Lloyd George (who used the hyphen when appointed to the peerage) and Iain Duncan Smith, composers Ralph Vaughan Williams and Andrew Lloyd Webber, military historian B. H. Liddell Hart ...
François Martin, Governor for French territories in India; Pierre Christoph Le Noir, Governor for French territories in India; Pierre Benoît Dumas, Governor for French territories in India; Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, French naval officer and administrator, in the service of the French East India Company.
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