The kidney Surname
kidney Name Meaning and History
Irish: from a mistranslation of Gaelic Ó Dubháin
‘descendant of Dubhán’, a byname from a diminutive of
dubh ‘black’ (see Devine). This was confused with the
Gaelic word dubhán ‘kidney’, which is in fact a derivative
of dubh ‘black’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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