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drone Name Meaning and History
- Probably an altered spelling of North German Drohne, a habitational name from a place in Westphalia called Drohne, or from a fieldname, from Middle Low German dron(e), a unit of land.
- Possibly a variant of English Drane, Irish Drohan, or Scottish Dron, a habitational name from a place so called in Perthshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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