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Dowie

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish : variant of Duffy.
  • Scottish : probably a reduced form of MacIldowie, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Dhuibh ‘son of the black lad’.

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