Dantes

See also: dantes

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Galician and Portuguese Dantes, probably a variant spelling of Dantas, a habitational surname. This surname is mostly found in the Philippines.

Proper noun

Dantes (plural Danteses)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Dantes is the 34465^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 657 individuals. Dantes is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (33.33%), Black/African American (28.92%) and White (25.27%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dantes”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 410.

Etymology 2

Noun

Dantes

1. plural of Dante

Anagrams

• atends, desant