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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : from Middle English dyse, dyce ‘die’, ‘dice’, ‘chance’, ‘luck’, probably applied as a nickname for an habitual dice player or gambler or as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of dice. Compare Deas.
  • Possibly also an Americanized spelling of German Deiss.

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