Last name: MELANSON
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All you have to know about the last name MELANSON
Last name frequency
MELANSON : This last name is indexed 36,958 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MELANSON : Breton (Mélanson; mainly Finistère): nickname from an altered form of French mélasson ‘clumsy’. This surname is very rare in France. Compare Malonson Melancon and Melonson.
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