The Don Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

There is no single Don family crest for all bearers; the honest first step is to find out which Don line, if any, bore arms.

In the records

Before any talk of crests, here are the plain facts about Don.

Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Don, so we research it family by family rather than guess. Start with the most recent records and work back one generation at a time. In the Spanish register, Don appears 90 times as a first surname and 74 times as a second one. French birth records list 659 children named Don between 1891 and 2000.

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