Last name origins & meanings:
- Vietnamese ({D-}{aud}ng): unexplained.
- Chinese:
The surname Dang comes from a branch of the ruling family
of the Zhou dynasty (1122–221 bc) that spread to the state
of Jin and the state of Lu. The character now also means ‘political
party’. - German: from an old personal name Tanco, a
cognate of modern German denken ‘to think’, Gedanke
‘thoughts’.
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