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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from daino ‘fallow deer’, applied as a nickname, perhaps for someone who was timid or fleet of foot, or as a metonymic occupational name for a game warden or hunter.
  • Perhaps a respelling of French Daignault.

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