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donovan Name Meaning and History

Irish (originally of County Limerick, later of Counties Cork and Kilkenny): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Donndubháin ‘descendant of Donndubhán’, a personal name composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + dubh ‘black’ + the diminutive suffix -án.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the donovan family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of donovan Families in the US in 1920
Number of donovan families
 802-1602
 268-801		 1-267
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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