Last name origins & meanings:
- 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.
- A bearer of the name from Gascony, France, is recorded in Montreal from
1758.
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