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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : of uncertain derivation; perhaps a respelling of Daunay, a habitational name, with the preposition d(e), for someone from a place named Aunay, for example in Calvados, Eure, and Orne. The place name is derived from aune ‘alder’.

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