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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Surrey and Sussex) : nickname for a poor or insignificant man, from the name of a very small medieval coin, Middle English, Old French denier (Latin denarius, a derivative of decem ‘ten’, since the Roman coin was worth ten asses).
  • In some cases possibly a respelling of the French cognate Denier.

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