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dovey Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish and Scottish: variant of Duffy.
  2. Perhaps an Americanized spelling of Norwegian Dåvøy, a habitational name from a farm so named in western Norway, from dove ‘shaking bog’ + øy ‘island’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dovey Families in the US in 1920
Number of dovey families
 9-15
 4-8		 1-3
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Threads: 21 - Messages: 76
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Dovey G_Dovey 1
Alice Dovey (1884-1969) sophieratcliffe1 1
Dovey Family Hanley Castle/Swan johnsaun 1
William & Amelia Dovey louisem1888 0
Harold Dovey-WWI BRADHF 21
Dovey paulinehaggerty 0
Doveys from WOR, STS, SAL (UK) kafk 0
Dovey Family of London, England 1800's Wendy Law 0
Ione Dovey David Alexander 5
Dovey family of Cambridgeshire David Taylor 0
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