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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Old French enfant ‘child’, hence a nickname for someone of a childish (or childlike) disposition. This name arose when, in medieval England, Anglo-Norman French l’enfant was wrongly understood as le fant.
  • Italian : Venetian variant of Infante.

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