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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname from Middle English dull + -ard ‘dull or stupid person’. Compare Doll 5.
  • Irish : either an importation to Ireland of the English name or, possibly, a reduced and altered form of de la Hyde (see Dollarhide).

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