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dent Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from places in Cumbria and West Yorkshire named Dent, possibly from a British hill name cognate with Old Irish dinn, dind ‘hill’.
  2. English and French: nickname from Old French dent ‘tooth’ (Latin dens, genitive dentis), bestowed on someone with some deficiency or peculiarity of the teeth, or of a gluttonous or avaricious nature.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dent Families in the US in 1920
Number of dent families
 102-201
 35-101		 1-34
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Threads: 411 - Messages: 997
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England to Ohio KATHYSANGELS 11
Arthur F. Dent, born about 1910, Butler County, Missouri WestArdenwood 3
Dent/Brewer Families ron9211 0
Dent Family in the UK PatB628 7
Slaves owned by the Dent family Jemal1970 7
DENT in Texas (J.T. & M.E. DENT) DA Cotten 2
Thomas Marshall Magruder BrandyBunson63 1
William H Dent Obit redwages11 0
Capt. John Dent standstall 0
DENT/POSEY FAMILY IN CHARLES COUNTY, MD Dawn Cates 14
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