Day
See also: Appendix:Variations of "day"
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
This surname has multiple origins. Besides the ones listed below, Norman origin has also been suggested from De Haie",[1] or "a corruption of the Normandy French D'Ossone, from the town of Ossone, in Normandy". [2]
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Day
- A surname originating as a patronymic derived from a medieval diminutive of David.[3]
- An English surname originating as an occupation from day as a word for a "day-servant", an archaic term for a day-laborer,[4] or from given names such as Dagr, Daug, Dege, and Dey, cognate with Scandinavian Dag.[5]
- A surname from Irish can be found as both Day and O'Day from Ó Deághaidh (“descendant of a person named Good Luck”).
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Modoc County, California.
- A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Lafayette County, Florida.
- A township in Montcalm County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Isanti County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in Taney County, Missouri.
- A town in Saratoga County, New York.
- A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges : A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press 1988.
- Notes:
- ^ Elisabeth Alice Gibbens Cole, An Account of Our Day Family of Calvert County, Maryland (1940), p. 49.
- ^ Day Surname Origin & Last Name Meaning at Ancestor Search.
- ^ Day Surname Origin & Last Name Meaning at Ancestor Search.
- ^ Ernest Weekley, The Romance of Words (1927), p. 165.
- ^ Susa Young Gates, Surname Book and Racial History (1918) p. 289.
Etymology 2 edit
Proper noun edit
Day