English: habitational name from places so named in Derbyshire and
West Yorkshire. This place name has the same origin as Danby,
but the Old Norse first element has been replaced by the cognate Old
English Dene.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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