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daw Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: from a pet form of David.
  2. English: nickname from the jackdaw, Middle English dawe, a bird noted for its sleek black color, raucous voice, and thievish nature, any of which characteristics could readily have given rise to a nickname.
  3. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh, ‘descendant of Deaghadh’, a personal name of uncertain origin. It may be composed of the elements deagh- ‘good’ + ádh ‘luck’, ‘fate’; some such association seems to lie behind its Anglicization as Goodwin.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of daw Families in the US in 1920
Number of daw families
 34-65
 12-33
 1-11
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