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Danish  Surnames Family History Resources

Surnames, their origin and their meaning

Many surnames are associated with the place/locality of where the family lived and in those cases the location is noted as the meaning.
Many surnames are associated with the occupation of the person given the name.

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Surname		Origin	Meaning
Banning		Danish	Baaning, a home, a dwelling
Bigod		Danish	By God
Bigot		Danish	By God
Bigsby		Danish	bigs, near, and by, the town
Bing		Danish	binge, a pen, a bin, a corn-bin
Bingham		Danish	a place where provisions were deposited; and ham, a town or village
Biorn		Danish	A bear; denoting courage and strength
Bixby		Danish	The house or village among the box-trees
Bliven		Danish	Beleven, affable, genteel, kind
Bramhall		Danish	bram, goods on sale
Bratt		Danish	Brave, valiant, courageous
Buller		Danish	Boler, a gallant
Byfield		Danish	The village in the field
Bygby		Danish	Barley-town
Digby		Danish	Dige, a dike, ditch, or trench, and by, a town
Rayner		Danish	Raner, a leader of the Danes
Riggs		Danish	wealthy, rich
Ringe		Danish	Mean, low, small, little
Roby		Danish	From Ro, rest, repose, and by, a town--the peaceful town
Rosencrans		Danish	Rosenkrands, a garland of roses
Sands		Danish	Sense, wit
Spelman		Danish	Spillemand, a fiddler
Cling		Danish	Klinge, a blade, a sword
Clingman		Danish	A swordsman, fencer, fighter
Fister		Danish	fisherman
Stemme		Danish	Voice, vote, suffrage
Stennett		Danish	stenet, stony, rocky
Stetson		Danish	stepson
Stimands		Danish	Stimand, a robber, highwayman
Storr		Danish	From storre, greater, larger, stout, strong
Stover		Danish	fleet hound
Stryker		Danish	strige, to strike, to roam, to travel
Swane		Danish	Swain, a youth, a servant, a herdsman
Unwin		Danish	Invincible
Frisby		Danish	The new, or fresh town
Gadsby		Danish	From gade, a street, and by, a town
Handel		Danish	Trade, commerce
Handsel		Danish	To deliver into the hand
Hasen		Danish	A hare
Hazen		Danish	A hare
Hecker		Danish	Hekker, a hedger
Hierne		Danish	An angle, a corner
Hobby		Danish	hob, a herd, and by, a town
Holden		Danish	Safe, entire, wealthy
Kebby		Danish	Kiob, buying, purchase, bargain, and by, a town
Kibby		Danish	Kiob-by, a market town, the place of buying
Kief		Danish	Brave, valiant, stout, bold
Kiersted		Danish	Kier, a marsh, and sted, a dwelling, a town
Lam		Danish	Lame
Love		Danish	lion

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