English:
habitational name from Downhead in Somerset or Donhead in Wiltshire,
both named from Old English dun ‘hill’, ‘down’ + Old English
heafod ‘head’, ‘end’.
Scottish: habitational name
from a place in Caithness.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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