Desautels Family History
Desautels Name Meaning
French: habitational name with fused preposition and definite article des ‘from the’ for someone from any of several places called Les Autels (in Aisne Calvados Eure-et-Loire and Seine-Maritime) named with a derivative of Latin altare ‘altar’ in the sense of a small chapel. Compare Deshotel Deshotels Desotell and Disotell .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022