Dugas Family History
Dugas Name Meaning
French: topographic name with fused preposition and definite article du ‘from the’ for someone who lived by a patch of waste land Old French gast (see Gast ); or a habitational name for someone from Le Gas the name of several places in various parts of France. This surname is most frequent in LA. It is also common among African Americans. Compare Duga Dugar and Dugat . Slovak and Rusyn: unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022