Dann is an

English surname English names are names used in, or originating in, England. In England as elsewhere in the English-speaking world, a complete name usually consists of a given name, commonly referred to as a first name, and a (most commonly patrilineal) family ...

. It is a

toponymic surname A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name.

which came from

Middle English Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English p ...

and

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...

, "valley". Variant spellings include

Dan Dan or DAN may refer to: People * Dan (name), including a list of people with the name ** Dan (king), several kings of Denmark * Dan people, an ethnic group located in West Africa **Dan language, a Mande language spoken primarily in Côte d'Ivoir ...

and

Dane Dane or Danes may refer to: People Pertaining to Denmark * Dane, somebody from Denmark * Danes, an ethnic group native to Denmark * Danes (Germanic tribe) Other people * Dane (name), a surname and a given name (and a list of people with the nam ...

. According to statistics compiled by

Patrick Hanks Patrick Hanks (born 24 March 1940) is an English lexicographer, corpus linguist, and onomastician. He has edited dictionaries of general language, as well as dictionaries of personal names. Background Hanks was educated at Ardingly College, ...

on the basis of the

2011 United Kingdom census A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years. The 2011 census was held in all countries of the UK on 27 March 2011. It was the first UK census which could be completed online via the Internet. The Office for National ...

and the

Census of Ireland 2011 The 2011 census of Ireland was held on Sunday, 10 April 2011. It was administered by the Central Statistics Office of Ireland and found the population to be 4,588,252 people.

, 2,666 people on the island of

Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is ...

and 54 on the island of

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

bore the surname Dann as of 2011. In the 1881 United Kingdom census there had been 1,858 people with the surname Dann, primarily at

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

, and

Norfolk Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...

. The

2010 United States Census The United States census of 2010 was the twenty-third United States national census. National Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2010. The census was taken via mail-in citizen self-reporting, with enumerators servin ...

found 3,735 people with the surname Dann, making it the 8,775th-most-common name in the country. This represented a decrease from 4,062 (7,550th most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, nearly nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as

non-Hispanic white Non-Hispanic whites or Non-Latino whites are Americans who are classified as "white", and are not of Hispanic (also known as "Latino") heritage. The United States Census Bureau defines ''white'' to include European Americans, Middle Eastern Amer ...

, and about six percent as non-Hispanic Black or African American. People with this surname include:

Artists and musicians

Hollis Dann Hollis Ellsworth Dann (May 1, 1861 – January 3, 1939) was an American music educator and choral director during the early twentieth century. Early life Dann was born in Canton, Pennsylvania to a musical family and studied music in Boston before ...

(1861–1939), American music educator and choral director *

Stan Dann Stan F. Dann (born May 23, 1931 Burnaby, British Columbia, died May 8, 2013 in Lafayette, California) was a contemporary Northern California artist known for his puzzle-like bas-relief wall sculptures of polychrome wood. His earlier commercial caree ...

(1931–2008), American wood carver *

Georgie Dann Georges Mayer Dahan (14 January 1940 – 3 November 2021), performing as Georgie Dann, was a Spain-based French singer-songwriter, known for his popular summer hits. Career Early life Georges Mayer Dahan was born on 14 January 1940 in Paris, t ...

(1940–2021), French singer *

Larry Dann Larry Dann (born 15 May 1941 in London, England) is a British film and television actor. His acting career began by a fluke, with "a chance knock at the door looking for kids to work in films." He made his film debut age five in '' Adam and Evely ...

(born 1941), British film and television actor *

Steven Dann Steven Dann (born December 27, 1953) is a Canadian violist. Early years Dann was born in Burnaby, British Columbia. He played the violin until 1970, when he switched to the viola. He began studying with Lorand Fenyves in Toronto in 1972, and con ...

(born 1953), Canadian violist *

Penny Dann Penny Dann (30 June 1964 – 20 December 2014) was a British children's book Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classifie ...

(1964–2014), British children's book illustrator *

Sophie-Louise Dann Sophie-Louise Dann (born 1969) is a British actress, best known for her work in musical theatre. Career Dann trained at Arts Educational Schools, London. She appeared in minor roles in the films ''My Summer with Des'' (1998) and ''The Phantom ...

(born 1969), British musical theatre actress *

Lance Dann Lance Dann is a British sound artist, audio drama producer, presenter and writer working for international theatre and radio since 1994. Life and work Dann is the founder of Radio Art group Noiseless Blackboard Eraser (1994–2007) and former A ...

(), British sound and radio artist

Sportspeople

Reg Dann Reginald Walter Dann (6 June 1916 – 1948) was an English professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, A ...

(1916–1948), English football midfielder *

Gordon Dann Gordon Dann (born 2 August 1944) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as ...

(born 1944), Australian rules footballer *

Donald Dann Donald "Doc" William Dann, OAM (12 February 1949 – 31 July 2005) was an Australian Paralympic athlete and table tennis player. He was born in the Tasmanian town of Wynyard. He lost a leg to a land mine in the Vietnam War, where he served in ...

(1949–2005), Australian Paralympic athlete and table tennis player *

Kevin Dann Kevin George Dann (5 April 195821 February 2021) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played his entire club football career with the Penrith Panthers, as a . Playing career Dann was a Bla ...

(1958–2021), Australian rugby league footballer *

Scott Dann (boxer) Scott "Dynamite" Dann (born 23 July 1974) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1997 to 2006. He held the British middleweight title from 2004 to 2005 and the Commonwealth middleweight title in 2006. As an amateur, he won the ...

(born 1974), English amateur boxer *

Scott Dann Scott Dann (born 14 February 1987) is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre back for club Reading. He began his Football League career with Walsall, before moving on to Coventry City and then to Birmingham City in 2009. Af ...

(born 1987), English football centre-back * Thomas Dann (born 1981), English cricketer *

Walter Dann Walter Dann (born c.1946) is a Canadian Wheelchair Athletics Athlete who has competed in the 1968, 1972 and the 1976 Summer Paralympics. He won silver in the Men's 4x60m Wheelchair Relay (with F. Henderson, B. Simpson and Eugene Reimer) and the N ...

(), Canadian Paralympic athlete

Writers

George Landen Dann George Landen Dann (1 January 1904 – 6 June 1977) was an Australian playwright, writer, and draftsman. He is best known for a number of award-winning and critically acclaimed plays such as '' In Beauty It Is Finished'', ''Fountains Beyond'', ' ...

(1904–1977), Australian playwright, writer, and draftsman *

Colin Dann Colin Dann (born 10 March 1943) is an English author. He is best known for his ''The Animals of Farthing Wood'' series of books, which was subsequently made into an animated series. Dann worked at the publishing firm William Collins, Sons & C ...

(born 1943), British writer of children's books *

Jack Dann Jack Dann (born February 15, 1945) is an American writer best known for his science fiction, an editor and a writing teacher, who has lived in Australia since 1994. He has published over seventy books, in the majority of cases as editor or co-edit ...

(born 1945) American science fiction writer *

Trevor Dann Trevor John Dann (born 6 November 1951) is an English writer and broadcaster best known for his radio and print journalism with BBC Radio, ''Q magazine'', ''Mojo'', and ''The Guardian'', and his critically praised 2006 "Darker Than the Deepest Se ...

(born 1951), British writer and broadcaster * Patty Dann (born 1953), American novelist and nonfiction writer

Others

* Christian Adam Dann (1758–1837), German Lutheran pastor * Wallace Dann (1847–1934), American local politician in Norwalk, Connecticut * Alf Dann (1893–1953), British trade union leader * Belinda Dann (1900–2007), Indigenous Australian woman known as a member of the Stolen Generation *

Bob Dann Robert William "Bob" Dann (28 September 1914 – 10 April 2008) was the 9th Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne. Dann studied for ordination at Trinity College (University of Melbourne), Trinity College at the University of Melbourne and was ordained ...

(1914–2008), Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia *

Michael Dann Michael Harold Dann (September 11, 1921 – May 27, 2016) was an American television executive. Dann was vice president of programming at CBS from 1963 to 1970, having worked there since leaving NBC in the late 1950s. He took a pragmatic approa ...

(1921–2016), American television executive *

Mary Dann and Carrie Dann The Dann Sisters, Mary Dann (1923–2005) and Carrie Dann (1932–2021), were Western Shoshone elders who were spiritual leaders, ranchers, and cultural, spiritual rights and land rights activists. They challenged the federal government over uses ...

(respectively 1923–2005 and 1931–2021), Native American activists * Laurie Dann (1957–1988), American murderer *

Marc Dann Marc Dann (born March 12, 1962) is an American former politician of the Democratic Party, who served as the Attorney General of Ohio from 2007 until his resignation on May 14, 2008. Law career and state Senate Dann earned a B.A. in 1984 from t ...

(born 1962), American politician *

Tim Dann Timothy Dann is a British voice-over artist, actor and writer. He is best known for his voice work on CITV, CBBC (TV channel), CBBC the comedy shows Hedz & OOglies. He also co-created and wrote OOglies with fellow writers Nick Hopkin & Austin Low. ...

, British voice actor

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