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dain Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname from Middle English digne, deyne ‘worthy’, ‘honorable’, or alternatively, as Reaney suggests, from Middle English dain(e) ‘haughty’, ‘reserved’ (Burgundian French doigne).
  2. English: variant of Dean.
  3. English: variant of Dane.
  4. French: nickname from Old French dain ‘agile’, ‘nimble’.
  5. Jewish: variant of Dayan.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dain Families in the US in 1920
Number of dain families
 22-41
 8-21		 1-7
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