Last name: ROUSSEAU

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ROUSSEAU : This last name is indexed 2,810,260 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

ROUSSEAU : French and Walloon: nickname for a red-haired man from a diminutive of Old French ro(u)s ‘red’ (see Roux and Leroux). This surname is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium in Haiti and in South Africa. Compare Rosseau and Russeau.

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