First name origin & meaning: Latin: Enduring First name variations: Durandt, Durante, Durant, Duran Last name origins & meanings:
- English and French: variant of Durant.
- Americanized
form of Hungarian Durándi, a habitational name for someone
from a place called Duránd, in former Szepes county.
- 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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