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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. French: habitational name from places in Eure, Charente, Mayenne, Manche, and Sarthe named L’Habit, from Old French l’habit ‘the hermitage’ (derived from Latin habitus), or a topographic name from the same word.
  2. A bearer of the name from Gascony, France, is recorded in Montreal from 1758.