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Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

  • English : Daybreak

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Family name origins & meanings

  • English : patronymic from Daw 1. It is suggested by Reaney and Wilson that the unusual -n suffix is a late survival of an Old English genitive ending, which was later superseded by the familiar -es suffix.

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