Frequency: (168)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
French: topographic name for someone who lived beside a path (rather than in a town), with fused preposition and article du ‘from the’ + French chemin ‘path’, ‘way’ (from Late Latin caminus, a word of Celtic origin).
GIVEN NAMES: French 10%. Emile (2), Dominique, Mathieu, Olivier.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
