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.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Day

  1. A Mbum-Day language of Chad.

Anagrams
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