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Dupuy (surname)

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Dupuy, also spelt DuPuy (US spelling), and in its old form du Puy is originally a French surname centered in Aquitaine, dating back to medieval times. Translated, the name means "of a puy", puy being a "height" in Old French.[1][2] In Aquitaine and in the south of France, it is more generally a frenchification of its original Occitan forms such as Delpech, Delpuech[1][3] and half frenchified forms (article) Dupech, Dupuch, Dupey. They all share the same meaning and etymology.[1] The surname Dupuis / Du Puis is seemingly unrelated; it is widespread in northern France and means "of the well".[1]

People named du Puy or Dupuy

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  1. ^ a b c d Albert Dauzat, Noms et prénoms de France, Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et commentée par Marie-Thérèse Morlet, p. 224b-225a
  2. ^ Harrison, Henry (1918). "Etymological Appendix of the Principal Foreign Names: 'Dupuy/Du Puy'". Surnames of the United Kingdom: A Concise Etymological Dictionary. Vol. 2. London: The Morland Press. p. 321. hdl:2027/coo1.ark:/13960/t5h99qd4b.
  3. ^ Harrison, Henry (1918). "Peach/Peache". Surnames of the United Kingdom: A Concise Etymological Dictionary. Vol. 2. London: The Morland Press. p. 64. hdl:2027/coo1.ark:/13960/t5h99qd4b.