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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : in most cases of French origin (see Duval 1), taken to England by a Huguenot refugee from Rouen. It may also be from a pet form of an Old English female personal name, Dūfe, meaning ‘dove’.
  • According to Black, this is also found as a Swedish variant of Scottish McDougall.

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