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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a settlement on the river Dart in Devon, which is named from a British term meaning ‘oak’ and is thus a cognate of Darwin 2.
  • English : metonymic occupational name for a maker of arrows, from Middle English dart (from Old French darde).

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