Dame Family History
Dame Name Meaning
English and French: from Middle English Old French dame ‘lady’ (from Latin domina ‘mistress’) applied as a nickname for a foppish young man whose outfit and manner have an effeminate elegance or as a metonymic occupational name for someone in the service of a lady. As a French name it may also be a nickname meaning ‘mother-in-law’. English: possibly an East Anglian variant of Dam
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022