as a Last Name
- 13,375
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Dowd
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhda ‘descendant of Dubhda’, a byname derived from dubh ‘dark’, ‘black’. The family were chieftains in Sligo and Mayo.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 13,375
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Massachusetts
- has the most people named Dowd per capita
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