Divas meaning | Last name Divas origin

Is the variation of Dyne. Anciently Dine. Might come from the French digne, worthy. There is a statement, however, I know not of what authority, that the family were identical with the Dyves, who came into England from Normandy with the Conqueror. De Dine. Hundred Rolls.

Variation of the Divers. Apparently a French local name, the D of De coalescing.

Is variant of Dine. See Dyne - Anciently Dine. Might come from the French digne, worthy. There is a statement, however, I know not of what authority, that the family were identical with the Dyves, who came into England from Normandy with the Conqueror. De Dine. Hundred Rolls.

Family name is a variant of the Dion. Descendant of Dion, i.e., Grecian god of wine; one who came from Dionne, in Burgundy.

Variant form of Dain. One who came from Denmark, i.e., forest of the Danes; dweller near the Dane River, in Cheshire.

Divas is variation of the Dain. See Dane - Occurs singly in Domesday, in the counties of Notts and Lincoln, as a personal name, like Norman, Frank, etc.; and Danus as a distinctive epithet or surname is added to the personal names Osmund, Simond, Strang, and Turchil to indicate their Danish birth or extraction. But Dane is also a topographical expression, the meaning of which is not clear. In the Hundred Rolls we find both Atte Dane, and De la Dane.