Dee
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Dee
- A river in Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
- A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book IV, canto XI, stanza 39:
- And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend; […]
- A female given name, short for names beginning with D.
- 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK (2008) →ISBN
- His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.
- 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK (2008) →ISBN
- A surname of multiple origins.
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TranslationsEdit
river in Wales and England
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StatisticsEdit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Dee is the 5,535th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,275 individuals. Dee is most common among White (72.48%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (10.20%) individuals.
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ManxEdit
Proper nounEdit
Dee f
- A female given name, very common in the south of Mann in the 19th century.
MutationEdit
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| Dee | Ghee | Nee |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
TagalogEdit
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Dee
- A Filipino-Chinese surname, most notably borne by:
- Enchong Dee, Filipino actor, model, and swimmer
StatisticsEdit
According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dee is the 282nd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 26,809 individuals.