Meaning and Origin of: Dane

Girl name origins & meanings

• English : Bright as day
• Hebrew : Valley

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Boy name origins & meanings

• English : One who comes from Denmark; a variant form of “Danish”
• Norse : From Denmark

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Family name origins & meanings

• English : variant of Dean or Dence.
• French (Dané) : ethnic name for someone from Denmark.
• Dutch : variant spelling of Daane.
• Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Déaghain ‘descendant of the dean’, but also of English origin, a variant of Dean.
• Hungarian (Dáné) : from the personal name Dániel, Hungarian form of Daniel.

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