Last name: DENT
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DENT : This last name is indexed 120,857 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
DENT : English:: 1: habitational name from Dent in Yorkshire possibly from a British hill name cognate with Old Irish dinn dind ‘hill’.2: variant of Dunt from Middle English dunt dent ‘blow (of a weapon or implement); combat’ (Old English dynt).
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