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Dandelion Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'tooth of lion'; French dent-de-lion; compare Quodling.

Hugh Daundalyn, Close Roll, 32 Edward I.

William Daundelynn. Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem.

Robert Daunilelin, Southamptonshire.

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Dandelion Surname Distribution Map

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PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England11:24,375,369195,128
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States41:12,554,671503,821

Dandelion Surname Meaning

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This surname is derived from a nickname. 'tooth of lion'; French dent-de-lion; compare Quodling.

Hugh Daundalyn, Close Roll, 32 Edward I.

William Daundelynn. Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem.

Robert Daunilelin, Southamptonshire. 20 Edward I: Placita de Quo Warranto, temp. Edward I-III.

A family named Dandelyon long existed in the Isle of Thanet (v. Lower's Patronymica Britannica).

1410. John Dauntlelyon: Cal. of Wills in Court of Husting (2).

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

DANDELYON: French Dentde lion, "lion's tooth;" probably from the formidable character of the first who bore it. So Caeur de Lion, Front de Boeuf, &c. This family, of Norman origin, were great proprietors in the Isle of Thanet, and became extinct about the beginning of Edw. IV. See Lewis's Isle of Tenet, 1723.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

Treated by Weekley as the weed, is the name of a farm in Thanet, possibly once held by a “lion-toothed” Norman

— Surnames (1917) by Walter Parry Haskett-Smith
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