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Dimech Surname Meaning

Patronymic from a pet form of the Italian personal name Domenico, denoting someone from Mega (Tuscany, Italy) or Meca (Huelva, Spain).

It is an apocopated form of Dimecca (Italian di Mecca), denoting someone ‘from Mecca’.

Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016


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Between 1966 and 2003, in the United States, Dimech life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1983, and highest in 1998. The average life expectancy for Dimech in 1966 was 75, and 83 in 2003.

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