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The dehn Surname

dehn Name Meaning and History

  1. from a short form of the personal name Degenhar(d)t (see Degenhardt).
  2. from the personal name Daniel.
  3. (also Danish): ethnic name for someone from Denmark, from Middle Low German, Danish dene ‘Dane’. In the Middle Ages Denmark extended as far south as the River Eider.
  4. possibly a topographic name for someone who lived in a hollow, from Middle Low German denne ‘hollow’, ‘shallow valley’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dehn Families in the US in 1920
Number of dehn families
 22-41
 8-21		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 23 - Messages: 98
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Dehns of Milwaukee, Wisconsin K_Steckelberg 4
Lewis DEHN from Germany and Anna DEICH from East Prussia Kathy_Messick 0
hello Dehn''s Tom Dehn 25
Family tree Helen 1
Dehn, Carl Reinhold (DOB: 05/20/1851) Nancy Dehn 2
Barney Dehn Charles 4
Dehn.......PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!! LittleLadynRed 2
Sgt. Dariek E. Dehn of Spangle, Wash., died June 2, 2007 I_Volunteer 0
Dehn WGFGER 0
I'm a Dehn - doing research on our Ancestry Delila (Dehn) Kremers 9
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