Dash Family History

English: variant of Ash with fused Old French preposition d(e) ‘of from’ a topographic name for someone who lived near an ash tree or a habitational name from a place called with the Old English word æsc such as Ash in Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Herefordshire, Kent, Shropshire, Somerset, and Surrey and Ashe in Devon and Hampshire.

Compare Nash. English: nickname perhaps from Middle English dasch(e), dassh(e), daish ‘violent or sharp blow’. Americanized form of German Dasch.

Indian: variant of Das.