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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese (Dança) : perhaps a nickname from dança ‘dance’.
  • Dutch : variant of Dankaert (see Dankert).
  • Americanized spelling of Hungarian Dancsa, a patronymic from Dancs, a pet form of Dániel, Domonkos, or Damján.

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