Dove Family History
Dove Name Meaning
English: from Middle English dove, Old English
dufe ‘dove’ (or perhaps occasionally from the Old Norse
cognate dúfa), applied as a nickname for a mild and gentle
person or as a metonymic occupational name for a keeper of doves. The
Old English word was used as a personal name for either sex in the
early Middle English period, and the surname at least in part derives
from this use.Scottish: translation of Mac
Calmáin (see Coleman 1).Scottish: variant of
Duff.North German: nickname for a deaf or dull man, Middle
Low German dof.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Dove Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dove families
 89 - 176  30 - 88 |
 1 - 29  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Dove families
|
317 - 632 106 - 316 |
1 - 105 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dove families
|
36 - 70 13 - 35 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Dove Family Origin
Dove Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Dove
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Dove Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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