Den Family History
Den Name Meaning
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 鄧 see Deng . Chinese: possibly from the Romanization of certain Chinese personal names of some early Chinese immigrants in the US. Origin undetermined. — Note: In the 2010 US Census data about half of the bearers of the surname Den are reported as “White” and some as “Black”. It is possible that in the population figure published by the US Census Bureau the Dutch case-inflected definite article de ‘the’ which forms first part of surnames such as Den Bleyker and Den Boer is in some instances counted as an independent surname. Compare Ten .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022