The dain Surname
dain Name Meaning and History
- English: nickname from Middle English digne, deyne ‘worthy’, ‘honorable’, or alternatively, as Reaney suggests, from Middle English dain(e) ‘haughty’, ‘reserved’ (Burgundian French doigne).
- English: variant of Dean.
- English: variant of Dane.
- French: nickname from Old French dain ‘agile’, ‘nimble’.
- Jewish: variant of Dayan.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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