as a Last Name
- 44,546
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Donovan
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 779th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 44,546
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Virgin Island
- has the most people named Donovan per capita
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