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Rodney

Name origin: German

Name meaning: Famous one

 
Dangerfield

Name origin: English (of Norman origin)

Name meaning: habitational name, with fused preposition d(e), for someone from any of the various places in northern France called Angerville, from the Old Norse personal name Ásgeirr (from áss ‘god’ + geirr ‘spear’) + Old French ville ‘settlement’, ‘village’. In England the surname is now found chiefly in the West Midlands.

 
 
 
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