Last Name DENISON

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Meaning	The son of Dennis. Both Denis and Denise, masculine and feminie forms, were in common use. Crossing over from France, this font-name was for a while exceedingly popular, especially in Yorkshire and the North, and has left its mark in such familiar surnames as Dyson, Denny, Dennett, Dyatt, Dyett, and Dye, apart from this one. The fiminine Dennise lingered on in South-West England till the close of 18th century. Another possible source of the name is local, 'de Deneys,' i.e. the Danish.

Origin	English, Irish, Romanian, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank	5,083 (2000 US census)	5,587 (1990 US census)

Count	6,336 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

94.46%, or 5985 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
1.14%, or 72 total occurrences, as black,
0.58%, or 37 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.71%, or 45 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.64%, or 104 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.47%, or 93 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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