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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French (Donzé) : according to Morlet, a Corsican variant of Italian Donzelli, from Old Italian donzello, denoting a young man of noble birth in the service of a king, used as a nickname for a mannered or effeminate man.
  • Dutch : nickname from Middle Dutch donst, donse ‘down’, ‘downy hair on the chin’.

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