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Downes

Feminine
Rare

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant (plural) of Down.
  • Irish (Counties Clare and Limerick) : reduced Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Ó Dubháin (see Doane).

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