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dann Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a woodland pasture, from Middle English denn ‘woodland pasture, especially for swine’ (Old English denn, dænn).
  2. Scottish: from a short form of the personal name Daniel.
  3. German and French (Alsace): topographic name for someone who lived by a pine tree, from Old High German tanna ‘pine tree’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dann Families in the US in 1920
Number of dann families
 116-229
 39-115		 1-38
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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