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diss Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from Diss in Suffolk, which gets its name from a Norman pronunciation of Middle English diche, Old English dic ‘ditch’, ‘dike’ (see Dyke).
  2. German: habitational name from Dissen near the Teutoburg forest.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of diss Families in the US in 1920
Number of diss families
 10-17
 4-9		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 12 - Messages: 81
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Diss Family KDissII 0
News/Diss Family? KDissII 0
Obit; Robert L. Diss 1933-2007 woodsman1953 1
Who has visited the town of Diss? K_Diss 1
obit - Mary Eileen DISS, 1933 - 2006 Ca. LorraineGilmer02 0
HULLO JONATHAN-ANDREW F. W. LAWRENCE- DISS 5
Diss Family Sheri 37
Hilda Diss (Kentz) Kelly Rodacay (Kentz Genealogy) 1
Diss Family Sheri 3
Diss' Zoe Diss 18
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