Dann

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Dann
Language(s) Middle English
Origin
Word/name Dene
MeaningValley
Other names
Variant form(s) Dan, Dane

Dann is an English surname. It is a toponymic surname which came from Middle English dene and Old English denu , "valley". Variant spellings include Dan and Dane. [1]

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According to statistics compiled by Patrick Hanks on the basis of the 2011 United Kingdom census and the Census of Ireland 2011, 2,666 people on the island of Great Britain and 54 on the island of Ireland bore the surname Dann as of 2011. In the 1881 United Kingdom census there had been 1,858 people with the surname Dann, primarily at Kent, Sussex, London, and Norfolk. [1] The 2010 United States Census found 3,735 people with the surname Dann, making it the 8,775th-most-common name in the country. This represented a decrease from 4,062 (7,550th most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, nearly nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as non-Hispanic white, and about six percent as non-Hispanic Black or African American. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 668. ISBN   9780192527479.
  2. "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 September 2018.