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The desmarais Surname

desmarais Name Meaning and History

French: habitational name for someone from any of various places named with Old French mareis, maresc ‘marsh’, as for example Les Marets, in Seine-et-Marne, Centre, Nord, and Picardy.

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

Distribution of desmarais Families in the US in 1920
Number of desmarais families
 45-88
 16-44		 1-15
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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