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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : variant of Danner, or a habitational name for someone from a place called Denn in the Rhineland.
  • English : from an agent derivative of Middle English denn ‘woodland pasture for swine’, hence an occupational or topographic name.

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