Last name: DENIS
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DENIS : This last name is indexed 2,357,146 times on Geneanet!Origin 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 Dennis). Compare Dennee.2: Ukrainian and Rusyn: variant transliteration of Denys a cognate of 1 above.
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