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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Down

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for a downland dweller, from Old English dūn ‘down’, ‘low hill’. See also Downer.
  • English : variant of Dunn 2.
  • Scottish : possibly a habitational name from Doune in Perthshire.

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