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Origine of last name

DUMAS : French: topographic name for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country rather than in a village from Occitan mas ‘farmstead’ (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Mas">Mas</a> 1); or a habitational name for someone from Le Mas the name of several places mainly in the southern part of France named with the same word. It is formed with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’. This surname is also common in Haiti. Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Demos">Demos</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Demoss">Demoss</a>.

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