Dee

Girl name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• Welsh : nickname for a swarthy person, from Welsh du ‘dark’, ‘black’.
• Irish : variant of Daw 3.
• English and Scottish : habitational name from a settlement on the banks of the river Dee in Cheshire or either of the rivers so named in Scotland. The origin of both of these is a Celtic word meaning ‘sacred’, ‘goddess’.

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