Last name: DOVEY
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DOVEY : This last name is indexed 15,416 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
DOVEY : 1: Irish: variant of Duffy.2: English: habitational name perhaps from the valley of the River Dovey (Dyfi) in Merionethshire and Cardiganshire in Wales specifically Aberdovey (Merionethshire).3: Americanized form of Norwegian Dåvøy: habitational name from a farm so named in western Norway from dove ‘shaking bog’ + øy ‘island’.
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