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The dey Surname

dey Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant of Day 1 and 2.
  2. German: topographic name from a field name in North Rhine-Westphalia, denoting a sizeable piece of land.
  3. Welsh: from Dai or Dei, pet forms of the personal name Dafydd, Welsh form of David.
  4. Indian (Bengal and Orissa) and Bangladeshi: Hindu (Kayasth) name, probably from Sanskrit deya ‘suitable for a gift’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dey Families in the US in 1920
Number of dey families
 67-132
 23-66		 1-22
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 93 - Messages: 260
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Charles C. DEY, abt 1924, New Jersey JoMac53 1
Dey Family from Prussia/Germany to the USA bftigger 0
JAMES DEY bubblesdey 11
Dey family matt dey 5
Dirck Janse Dey Ron Bessert 10
Emil Dey from Prussia @ 1886, settled in Buffalo, NY Smilelday 6
Sears Dey mjdey1 1
Deys in New York New Jersey Mary Jo (Zimmer) Dey 13
Annaetje Dey-Michael Moore-Bergen Co NJ btw 1715-1770 cleoqfd 0
Dey Family Norfolk Va isendresq 0
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