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Updated January 24, 2024

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • Hebrew : Beloved
  • Irish : Brave one

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish and Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dobhailéin ‘descendant of Dobhailéan’, a personal name of uncertain origin, probably from a diminutive of dobhail ‘unlucky’, ‘unfortunate’.

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