Deen meaning | Last name Deen origin

Surname is the variation of Den. A local termination, frequently occurring in the Weald of Kent and Sussex. It is synonymous with dean, a valley; but in this district it has the peculiar signification of "a woody valley, or place yield ing both covert and feeding for cattle, especially swine." Somner's Roman Ports in Kent. The right of pannage, or hog-feeding, in this woody tract -the Sylva Anderida of anterior times-is called in Saxon charters Denbera. Somner. Dr. Bosworth defines denboere as "wood-bearing, woody, yielding mast." In a charter of the year 804, Kenwulf, King of Mercia, and Cuthred, King of Kent, gave to the Monks of St. Augustine xiij denberende on Andred," which a chronicler subsequently rendered, "xiii dennas glandes portantes—13 Dens yielding acorns or mast in the forest of Andred." The following list contains such surnames with this termination as appear to me to belong exclusively to the Wealden district of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey.

Variant of the Dean. Anglo-Saxon denu, a avle or plain. Atte Dene is the common from in old times, implying residence at such a place. There are, however, eighteen parishes or places called Dean in the Gazeteer of England., and Dene occurs in Domesday as a personal appellation.

The surname Deen is variant form of the Adeane. The same as Dean with the prefix a for at - Anglo-Saxon denu, a avle or plain. Atte Dene is the common from in old times, implying residence at such a place. There are, however, eighteen parishes or places called Dean in the Gazeteer of England., and Dene occurs in Domesday as a personal appellation.

Deen is a variant of the Dean. Dweller at the valley or woodland pasture; one who was the head of the body of canons of a cathedral church; a member of a dean's entourage.

The is a variant form of the Den. Valley, pasture, plain, enclosed frove.