Day

See also: day, dày, dây, dạy, dậy, and Appendix:Variations of "day"

English

Etymology 1

This surname has multiple origins. Besides the ones listed below, Norman origin has also been suggested from De Haie",[1] or "a corruption of the Normandy French D'Ossone, from the town of Ossone, in Normandy". [2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /deɪ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Proper noun

Day

  1. A patronymic surname​ derived from a medieval diminutive of David.[3]
  2. An English surname​ from day as a word for a "day-servant", an archaic term for a day-laborer,[4] or from given names such as Dagr, Daug, Dege, and Dey, cognate with Scandinavian Dag.[5]
  3. An Irish surname​ anglicised from Ó Deághaidh (“descendant of a person named Good Luck”).
Derived terms

References
  • Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges : A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press 1988.
  • Notes:
  1. Elisabeth Alice Gibbens Cole, An Account of Our Day Family of Calvert County, Maryland (1940), p. 49.
  2. Day Surname Origin & Last Name Meaning at Ancestor Search.
  3. Day Surname Origin & Last Name Meaning at Ancestor Search.
  4. Ernest Weekley, The Romance of Words (1927), p. 165.
  5. Susa Young Gates, Surname Book and Racial History (1918) p. 289.

Proper noun

Day

  1. A Mbum-Day language of Chad.

Anagrams
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