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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Perhaps an altered spelling of the French habitational name Dedun, denoting someone from any of the various places named Dun, for example in Cher, Indre, and Meuse. According to Morlet, the habitational name is derived from Gallic dunum ‘hill’, later ‘fortress’.

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