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Origine of last name

DEAN : 1: English: topographic name from Middle English dene ‘valley’ (Old English denu) or a habitational name from any of several places in various parts of England named Dean or Dene from this word.2: English: nickname or occupational name for the servant of a dean or nickname for someone thought to resemble a dean. A dean was an ecclesiastical official the head of a chapter of canons or a church official with jurisdiction over a sub-division of an archdeaconry. Though no doubt some deans had illegitimate children they were officially celibate and in the main the surname is probably a nickname in origin similar to <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Bishop">Bishop</a> <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Prior">Prior</a> <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Priest">Priest</a> and <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Monk">Monk</a>. The Middle English word deen dien dein is a borrowing of Old French d(e)ien doien from Latin decanus (originally a leader of ten men from decem ‘ten’) and thus is a cognate of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Deacon">Deacon</a>.3: English: from the Middle English personal name Deyne (or Dene) a rhyming pet form of Reynald (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Reginald">Reginald</a>).4: Italian: occupational name cognate with 2 above from Venetian dean ‘dean’ a dialect form of degan from degano (Italian decano).5: Irish: variant of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Deane">Deane</a>.6: Scottish: habitational name from Den in Kildrummy Aberdeenshire or Dean in Kilmarnock Ayrshire.

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