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dee Name Meaning and History

  1. Welsh: nickname for a swarthy person, from Welsh du ‘dark’, ‘black’.
  2. Irish: variant of Daw 3.
  3. English and Scottish: habitational name from a settlement on the banks of the river Dee in Cheshire or either of the rivers so named in Scotland. The origin of both of these is a Celtic word meaning ‘sacred’, ‘goddess’.

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

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Distribution of dee Families in the US in 1920
Number of dee families
 87-171
 30-86		 1-29
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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