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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. French: from a short form of the personal Jordanis.
  2. French and English: from a pet form of Daniel.
  3. French: habitational name, with the preposition d(e), for someone from Anixhe in Fexhe-lez-Slins in the Belgian province of Liège, recorded in the 13th century as Anis.
  4. Hungarian: patronymic from Dani, a pet form of the personal name Dániel, Hungarian form of Daniel.
  5. Czech and Slovak (Daniš): variant of Daňek (see Danek).
  6. Lithuanian and Latvian: from a derivative of the personal name Danis, Danielius (see Daniel).
  7. A Danis-Tourangeau, from Tours, was married in Montreal in 1658.