Dane (name)
Dane is a male given name and family name .
Origin and meaning
There are several possible derivatives for the English family name Dane: Dane can be a name of origin, which originally referred to a person from Denmark , or it can occur as a variant of Dean and then be either a professional name or a name of origin.
An identical male given name is derived from the English family name with its different etymology.
Dane also exists as a Slavic male given name, as a short form of Bogdan or Danijel .
Name bearer
First name
- Dane Bowers (* 1979), English pop singer, songwriter and record producer
- Dane Byers (* 1986), Canadian ice hockey player
- Dane Cook (* 1972), American comedian and actor
- Dane DeHaan (* 1986), American actor
- Dane Propoggia (* 1990), Australian tennis player
- Dane Richards (born 1983), Jamaican soccer player
- Dane Rudhyar (1895–1985), American composer, painter and founder of humanistic astrology
- Dane Šijan (* 1977), Serbian handball goalkeeper
- Dane Watts (* 1986), American basketball player
- Dane Zajc (1929–2005), Slovenian poet, playwright and author
family name
- Clemence Dane (1888-1965), British novelist and screenwriter
- Cornelius Dane (1956-2004), German actor
- Eric Dane (born 1972), American actor
- Gerhard Dane (* 1942), German Catholic clergyman and book author
- Joseph Dane (1778-1858), American politician
- Karl Dane (aka Rasmus Karl Therkelsen Gottlieb; 1886–1934), American actor
- Nathan Dane (1752–1835), American politician
- Peter Dane (1918–1985), American actor
- Peter Dane (poet) (1921–2016), German-New Zealand poet, environmentalist and university professor
- Warrel Dane (1961-2017), American musician
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dane (first name) on vorname-weltweit.de
- ↑ Dane (family name 1) on behindthename.com (Eng.)
- ↑ Dane (family name 2) on behindthename.com (Eng.)
- ↑ Dane (first name) on behindthename.com (Engl.)
- ↑ Janez Keber: Leksikon imen. Izvor imen na Slovenskem. Mohorjeva družba, Celje 1996