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deane Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: in County Donegal this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Deagánaigh ‘son of the deacon’ (see Deacon); in County Tipperary it can be from Gaelic Ó Déaghain ‘descendant of the deacon’. In other cases the surname is of English origin (see Dean 1).
  2. English: variant of Dean 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of deane Families in the US in 1920
Number of deane families
 76-149
 26-75		 1-25
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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