Last name: DOLAN
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DOLAN : This last name is indexed 114,092 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
DOLAN : 1: Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhláin ‘descendant of Dubhshlán’ a personal name from dubh ‘black’ + slán ‘challenge’.3: In some cases also an American shortened form of Slovenian Dolanc or Dolanec: vernacular variants of a habitational name for someone from any of numerous villages named Dol ‘small valley’.2: Americanized form of French Daudelin.
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