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The billet Surname

billet Name Meaning and History

  1. from a reduced form of Robillet, itself a pet form of Robert.
  2. metonymic occupational name for a carpenter, from a diminutive of Old French bille ‘piece of wood’, ‘stick’ (a word of Gaulish origin).
  3. metonymic occupational name for a secretary, from a diminutive of Old French bulle ‘letter’. This sense of billet did not become established until the 15th century, however, rather late for surname formation.
  4. Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a banker or money changer, from German Billet ‘note’, ‘banknote’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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billet Family Facts

Distribution of billet Families in the US in 1920
Number of billet families
 44-85
 15-43		 1-14
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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