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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhchair ‘descendant of Dubhchar’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + car ‘dear’.
  • Possibly an Americanized spelling of South German Daucher, a topographic name for someone living near a marsh, Swabian dialect Dauch.

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