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The Desmarais surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,170 people carried this name — #7,933 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 70,900 people counted. That is up 3% from 4,043 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Desmarais surname

Desmarais: a habitational surname, equivalent to English Marsh.

From des (“of the”) + marais (“wetlands”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Desmarais» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 312 people named Desmarais.

5 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 34 départements, most often Eure.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 5
Eure 63
Indre-et-Loire 42
Nord 38
Oise 29
Charente-Maritime 15
Haute-Vienne 13
Allier 12
Paris 11

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In print

Desmarais in American newspapers,
1899–1910.

Newspaper page from The Eureka Sentinel carrying the name Desmarais
The Eureka Sentinel 1904-10-29
Newspaper page from El Paso Daily Herald carrying the name Desmarais
El Paso Daily Herald 1899-12-09
Newspaper page from Dziennik Chicagoski carrying the name Desmarais
Dziennik Chicagoski 1910-08-19

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 3,763 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Desmarais,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Odilon Desmarais
    Odilon Desmarais 1854–1904 · judge
  • Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais
    Stanislas-Edmond Desmarais 1872–1948 · politician
  • Desmarais Desenne 1705–1778
  • Louis-Élie Desmarais 1834–1913 · photographer
  • Ovila Desmarais 1835– · photographer
  • Joseph Louis Aldée Desmarais 1891–1979 · Catholic bishop

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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Surnames next to Desmarais.

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