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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : from a mistranslation of Gaelic Ó Dubháin ‘descendant of Dubhán’, a byname from a diminutive of dubh ‘black’ (see Devine). This was confused with the Gaelic word dubhán ‘kidney’, which is in fact a derivative of dubh ‘black’.

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