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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly Irish, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhda, which has usually been Anglicized as O’Dowd (see Dowd), but also as Dowda and Duddy, forms which preserve the final vowel.

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