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The denison Surname

denison Name Meaning and History

  1. English: patronymic from the personal name Dennis.
  2. Possibly an Americanized form of cognates in other languages, for example Russian Denisov, from Denis, or Ukrainian Denysevich, from Denys.

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

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Distribution of denison Families in the US in 1920
Number of denison families
 49-95
 17-48		 1-16
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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