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danner Name Meaning and History

German: topographic name for someone who lived in or by a forest, from Middle Low German dan, Middle High German tan ‘pine’, ‘forest’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant, or a habitational name from any of various places called Thann, named with this word, notably in Bavaria, and also in Mecklenburg and Switzerland.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The danner name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the danner family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of danner Families in the US in 1920
Number of danner families
 118-234
 40-117		 1-39
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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