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Updated June 9, 2019

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.

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