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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : topographic name from dunaj ‘distant or unfamiliar river’, also ‘abyss’.
  • Jewish (from Poland) : habitational name from either the village Dunaj in central Poland, or ornamental name from Dunaj, the Polish name for the Danube river.

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