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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian : habitational name for someone who lived in a settlement on the Danube river (Hungarian Duna). In some cases the name may simply be ornamental.
  • Ukrainian : see Dunaj 1.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Dunaj 2.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of the unexplained French surname Duné or Dunet

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