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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Suffolk, recorded in Domesday Book as Dingifetuna, from the Old English female personal name Denegifu (composed of the elements Dene ‘Dane’ + gifu ‘gift’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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