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.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 199,523 Historical Documents with Dinan on Ancestry
- 43,487 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,203 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,113 Military Records
- 2,465 Immigration Records
- 138,255 Member Trees
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Number of Dinan families
 22 - 41  8 - 21 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dinan families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dinan census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Dinan census records
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