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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern French : topographic name for someone who lived on or near a hill with a rounded summit, Occitan puy (from Latin podium), with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’, or from any of various places called Le Puy.
  • Southern French : variant spelling of Dupuis 1.

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