Last name: DONOVAN
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Last name frequency
DONOVAN : This last name is indexed 176,391 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
DONOVAN : Irish (Cork): shortened 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.
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