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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Perhaps a variant of Scottish Dunmore, a variant of Dunmore.
  • Alternatively, a respelling of German Dannmeyer or Dannmeier, a distinguishing name for a farmer (see Meyer) whose farm was by a pine forest (Middle Low German dan, Middle High German tan ‘pine tree’, ‘pine forest’).

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