Color, D surnames

Dunne

Dunne is an Irish surname, an anglicized form of Ó Duinn and Ó Doinn meaning "descendant of Donn" which means either "chief, lord, noble" or "brown, dark". Spelled Dünne, it's a German surname meaning either "thin, slender", originating as a nickname for someone who was tall and slender, or as a locational name for someone who came from… Continue reading Dunne

Color, D surnames

Davenport

Origin: Celtic, Latin Davenport comes from a habitational surname, the name from a place in the town of Cheshire. The first part of the name is derived from the Dane river, apparently the Celtic cognate of Middle Welsh dafnu meaning "to drop, to trickle", while the second element of the name comes from Old English… Continue reading Davenport