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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the Yiddish female name dinke, a pet form of biblical Dinah.
  • Irish : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn (see Duncan 2).

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