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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Deas.
  • Dutch : patronymic from a short form of the personal name Desiderius.
  • German : from a short form of the personal name Matthäs, a variant of Matthäus (see Matthew), or in some instances an Americanized spelling of Diess (see Dies).

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