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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of the personal name Dankwart, from Old High German thank ‘think’, ‘thank’, ‘thought’ + wart ‘guardian’.
  • German : nickname for a left-handed or clumsy person, from Middle High German tenk ‘left’.
  • German : variant of Denke.

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