First name origin & meaning: English: Happy home First name variations: Dent, Denten, Dentin, Dentown Last name origin & meaning: English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the numerous
places so called. The vast majority, including those in
Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Dumfries, County Durham, Kent, Lancashire,
Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and West
Yorkshire, are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ (see
Dean 1) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. An isolated
example in Northamptonshire appears in Domesday Book as
Dodintone ‘settlement associated with Dodda’.
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