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Dain Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English digne,
deyne ‘worthy’, ‘honorable’, or alternatively, as Reaney
suggests, from Middle English dain(e) ‘haughty’, ‘reserved’
(Burgundian French doigne).English: variant of
Dean.English: variant of Dane.French:
nickname from Old French dain ‘agile’, ‘nimble’.Jewish: variant of Dayan.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Dain Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dain families
 22 - 41  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Dain families
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26 - 49 9 - 25 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dain families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Dain Family Origin
Dain Immigration Information
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Dain Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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