Frequency: (122)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
French: nickname for a bellicose man, from bataille ‘battle’, from Latin battualia.
GIVEN NAMES: French 13%. Brunel, Celine, Jacques.
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