Frequency: (180)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Italian: 1. from danza ‘dance’, hence a nickname for someone who enjoyed dancing, but possibly from the same word, in Old Italian meaning ‘agreement’, ‘pact’, ‘coalition’. 2. habitational name from Danza in Salerno province.
GIVEN NAMES: Italian 16%. Angelo (4), Gaetano (2), Cosmo, Michelangelo, Salvatore.
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