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Origine of last name

DENIS : 1: French Walloon Breton West Indian (mainly Haiti) German Dutch English and Portuguese; Spanish and Galician (Denís): from the personal name Denis Spanish and Galician Denís from Latin Dionysius ‘(follower) of Dionysos’ (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Dennis">Dennis</a>). Compare <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Dennee">Dennee</a>.2: Ukrainian and Rusyn: variant transliteration of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Denys">Denys</a> a cognate of 1 above.

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