The dee Surname
dee Name Meaning and History
- Welsh: nickname for a swarthy person, from Welsh du ‘dark’, ‘black’.
- Irish: variant of Daw 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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