Last name origins & meanings:
- French: from a short form of the personal Jordanis.
- French and English: from a pet form of Daniel.
- 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.
- Hungarian: patronymic from Dani, a pet form of the personal
name Dániel, Hungarian form of Daniel.
- Czech and Slovak (Daniš): variant of Daňek
(see Danek).
- Lithuanian and Latvian: from a
derivative of the personal name Danis, Danielius (see
Daniel).
- A Danis-Tourangeau, from Tours, was married in Montreal in 1658.
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