Frequency: (119)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
French: from a shortened form of échaudoir ‘scalding vat’, possibly applied as a metonymic occupational name for a butcher.
GIVEN NAME French 5%. Patrice.
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