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The dow Surname

dow Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish (also found in Ireland): reduced form of McDow. This surname is borne by a sept of the Buchanans.
  2. English: variant of Daw.
  3. Americanized spelling of Dutch Douw, an Old Frisian personal name.
  4. Americanized spelling of German Dau.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The dow name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the dow family name as far back in history as possible.

dow Family Facts

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Distribution of dow Families in the US in 1920
Number of dow families
 254-506
 85-253		 1-84
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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