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Surname Etymology and Meaning of DINEEN

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Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinnín ‘descendant of Duinnín’, a byname from a diminutive of donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)