Last name: BLANC
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BLANC : This last name is indexed 2,796,494 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BLANC : 1: French and Catalan: descriptive nickname for a man with light blond hair or a pale complexion from Old French Catalan blanc ‘white’. Compare French Deblanc and Leblanc and also Blan and White.2: Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Blank.3: English (southern): variant of Blank or Blong.4: West Indian (mainly Haiti): nickname possibly ironic of the same origin as 1 above. Compare Leblanc.
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