Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Dowland in Devon, named from Old English dūfe ‘dove’ + feld ‘open country’ + land ‘estate’.
- Irish : of uncertain derivation, possibly a variant of Dowlin or Dolan.
- Altered spelling of Norwegian Dovland, a habitational name from a farm on the south coast of Norway, so named from dove ‘shaking bog’ + land ‘land’.