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dame Name Meaning and History

English and French: from Old French dame ‘lady’ (Latin domina ‘mistress’), originally a nickname for a foppish man or a title of respect for a widow. It may also have been a metonymic occupational name for someone in the service of a lady.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dame Families in the US in 1920
Number of dame families
 49-95
 17-48
 1-16
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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