Dupont

Meaning

1. A male given name transferred from the surname.
2. A number of places in the United States:
3. A village in Putnam County, Ohio, named after Samuel Francis Du Pont.
4. An unincorporated community in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, named, for want of a name, after a box of Dupont shotgun shells.
5. A surname from French.
6. A town in Lancaster Township, Jefferson County, Indiana, named after the Du Pont family.
7. A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, named after the Dupont Explosives company.
8. An unincorporated community in Adams County, Colorado, named after the DuPont company.

Etymology / origin

Borrowed from French Dupont, meaning "of the bridge".

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