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dolen Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: variant spelling of Dolan.
  2. Perhaps a reduced form of Slovenian Dolenc or Dolenec (see Dolence).
  3. German: from a short form of a personal name composed with Germanic theud ‘people’, ‘race’.
  4. Perhaps an Americanized spelling of Norwegian Døhlen, Dæhlen, habitational names from a number of farmsteads named from Old Norse dalvin (from dalr ‘valley’ + vin ‘meadow’).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dolen Families in the US in 1920
Number of dolen families
 19-36
 7-18
 1-6
 0
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