Dinan Family History
Dinan Name Meaning
Irish: (now mainly Counties Clare and Cork): reduced Anglicized
form of Gaelic Ó Daghnáin ‘descendant of
Daghnán’, possibly a diminutive of dagh ‘good’.Irish: variant of Dineen.English (of Norman
origin): habitational name from Dinan, in Côtes-du-Nord,
Brittany.In some cases, possibly an altered spelling of French
Dinant, a habitational name from Dinant, a place in the Belgian
province of Namur.
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dinan
Name Distribution of Dinan Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dinan families
 22 - 41  8 - 21 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dinan families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dinan census records
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Dinan Family Origin
Dinan Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Dinan Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Dinan census records
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Military Service by Dinan
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