Meaning and Origin of: Deane

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Divine

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : Valley

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : in County Donegal this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Deagánaigh ‘son of the deacon’ (see Deacon); in County Tipperary it can be from Gaelic Ó Déaghain ‘descendant of the deacon’. In other cases the surname is of English origin (see Dean 1).
  • English : variant of Dean 1.