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Family name origins & meanings
- Vietnamese ({D-}{aud}ng) : unexplained.
- Chinese :
The surname Dang comes from a branch of the ruling family of the Zhou dynasty (1122–221 bc) that spread to the state of Jin and the state of Lu. The character now also means ‘political party’. - German : from an old personal name Tanco, a cognate of modern German denken ‘to think’, Gedanke ‘thoughts’.