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dax Name Meaning and History

  1. English: patronymic from Dack.
  2. Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Dachs, from Middle High German dahs ‘badger’; hence a nickname for someone who hunted badgers or was thought to resemble the animal.
  3. French: habitational name, either from Dax in Landes or (with fused preposition d(e)) from Ax-les-Thermes in Ariège.

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

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Distribution of dax Families in the US in 1920
Number of dax families
 6-9
 3-5		 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Dax family prior to George Dax (died 1752) cromhale 0
Dax WGFGER 0
Cornelia Pedersdatter Dax Dale_Rosten 0
Wilhelmus and Elisabeth Lannen Christi Riley 1
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