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First name origin & meaning:

Latin: Enduring

First name variations: Durandt, Durante, Durant, Duran

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English and French: variant of Durant.
  2. Americanized form of Hungarian Durándi, a habitational name for someone from a place called Duránd, in former Szepes county.
  3. There was a Parisian family of this name in Quebec city in 1661. In 1662 a Durand from Saintonge married Catherine Anenontha, daughter of Nicolas Arendanki and Jeanne Otrihouandit, Hurons. A family called Durand from Angoumois was in Quebec by 1665; and two from Chartres were in Quebec by 1669 and 1673.

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