Deleuze Family History
Deleuze Surname Meaning
Walloon and French: habitational name with fused preposition de ‘from’ denoting someone from Leuze, the name of several places in Belgium and France, especially one in Hainaut, a province of southern Belgium near the French border.
French (southern): topographic name with fused preposition de ‘from’ denoting someone from a place where holm oaks grew, from Occitan euse ‘holm oak’.
Compare Delooze.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
