Denver Family History
Denver Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Denver in Norfolk named as ‘Dane's ford’ from Old English Dene ‘Dane’ (genitive Dena) + fær ‘ford passage crossing’. Irish: adopted because of rough phonetic similarity for Ó Duineachdha ‘descendant of Duineachaidh’ a personal name meaning ‘humane’ more often Anglicized as Dennehy .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022