Donovan Family History
Donovan Name Meaning
Irish (originally of County Limerick, later of Counties Cork and
Kilkenny): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Donndubháin ‘descendant of Donndubhán’, a personal
name composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or
‘chieftain’ + dubh ‘black’ + the diminutive suffix
-án.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Donovan Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Donovan families
 802 - 1,602  268 - 801 |
 1 - 267  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Donovan families
|
989 - 1,975 330 - 988 |
1 - 329 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Donovan families
|
9 - 16 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Donovan Family Origin
Donovan Immigration Information
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Donovan Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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