Family name origins & meanings
- French : regional name, with the preposition d(e), for someone from the Ardennes, a wooded plateau in northeastern France, southeastern Belgium, and Luxembourg, or a habitational name from a place named Ardenne, for example in Charente-Maritime and Haute-Loire.
- The marriage of a Dardenne or Dardains from Saintonge is recorded in 1668 in Montreal.