About the Debois Surname

Debois? Think of it as Dubois with a different pen. Like many surnames, it began with a place: “Of the wood”.

• Debois writes “e” in place of the “u” found in Dubois, a common scribal difference.
• According to the 2010 US Census, the Debois surname had 438 bearers. INSEE counts 651 people born in France with the Debois surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1951–1960. Births ran at 36 in 1891–1900 and 43 in 1991–2000.

Arms associated with the name

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