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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : from a short form of a personal name containing the Old High German element thank ‘thank’, ‘think’, ‘thought’, or a habitational name for someone from a place named Denkte, near Wolfenbüttel.
  • Hungarian : from a pet form of any of the personal names Dénes, Demeter, or Demjén.

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