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dove Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Middle English dove, Old English dufe ‘dove’ (or perhaps occasionally from the Old Norse cognate dúfa), applied as a nickname for a mild and gentle person or as a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of doves. The Old English word was used as a personal name for either sex in the early Middle English period, and the surname at least in part derives from this use.
  2. Scottish: translation of Mac Calmáin (see Coleman 1).
  3. Scottish: variant of Duff.
  4. North German: nickname for a deaf or dull man, Middle Low German dof.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dove Families in the US in 1920
Number of dove families
 89-176
 30-88		 1-29
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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