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mcdow Name Meaning and History

Scottish and Irish: patronymic from the Gaelic personal name Dubh meaning ‘black’; thus, it is of the same origin as McDuff.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mcdow Families in the US in 1920
Number of mcdow families
 22-41
 8-21
 1-7
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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