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duce Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname from Middle English douce, dowce ‘sweet’, ‘pleasant’ (Old French dolz, dous, from Latin dulcis). This was also in occasional use as a female personal name in the Middle Ages, and some examples may derive from it.
  2. Italian: from duce ‘leader’, ‘chief’, probably applied as a nickname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of duce Families in the US in 1920
Number of duce families
 5-7
 2-4		 1
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 37 - Messages: 157
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Duce Ancestry Gayla Duce 6
Pony DUCE - 27 Jul 1904 - 10 Jul 1908 - Texas rajordan1928 0
Looking for Duce! Jane Forbes Adam nee DUCE 1
Duce family lakeladyf 23
Bon, Benjamin Obit. Fresno Bee Nov 23, 1949 rldrev 0
Henry Duce family of Derbyshire, England. KayLois 7
Duce family in Australia Nan 3
Duce family in South east London davros8 0
Duce - Smith Anderson Duce of Leeds, Yorkshire, England lakeladyf 0
Duces txlil1 0
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