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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English, Old French dance ‘dance’, hence a nickname for a skilled or enthusiastic dancer, or a metonymic occupational name for a professional acrobat or dancer.
  • Probably a translation or Americanized spelling of German Danz.

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