as a Last Name
- 25,916
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Dooley
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhlaoich ‘descendant of Dubhlaoch’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ (see Duff) + laoch ‘champion’, ‘hero’.
| 1,392nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 25,916
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Wyoming
- has the most people named Dooley per capita
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