from danza ‘dance’, hence a nickname for
someone who enjoyed dancing, but possibly from the same word, in Old
Italian meaning ‘agreement’, ‘pact’, ‘coalition’.
habitational
name from Danza in Salerno province.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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