Deans Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

Deans is a familiar spelling of the English name Dean. Its meaning, shared with Dean, is “Dweller in a valley, or servant of a dean”. Deans adds a patronymic ending to Dean, marking ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

4,087 Americans were listed as Deans in the 2010 census.

Arms linked to Dean and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Want more than a summary? See the Deans family name pack.