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dowling Name Meaning and History

  1. English: nickname for a stupid person, Middle English dolling, a derivative of Old English dol ‘dull’, ‘stupid’ (see Doll).
  2. Irish: variant of Dolan 1.

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

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

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Distribution of dowling Families in the US in 1920
Number of dowling families
 259-515
 87-258		 1-86
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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