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downing Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: sometimes of English origin, but in County Kerry it is usually an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinnín (see Dineen).
  2. English: patronymic from a variant of Dunn 2.

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Distribution of downing Families in the US in 1920
Number of downing families
 183-364
 62-182
 1-61
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