The dery Surname
dery Name Meaning and History
- French: habitational name, with the preposition de, for someone from a place named with Walloon ri ‘stream’, for example in Marchin, Liège, or Macquenoise, Hainault, or alternatively from the common northern French place name Rieu(x), derived from Latin rivus ‘stream’, ‘river’.
- Probably of French origin (Déry), from D’Héry, habitational name, with the preposition d’, from places in Nièvre, Savoy, and Yonne.
- Hungarian (Déry): habitational name from a place called Dér in Baranya county or Dor in Sopron county. Compare Dory.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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