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First name origin & meaning:

Irish: Dark warrior

First name variations: Donahue, Donnell, Donnel, Donner, Donovon, Donnelly

Last name origin & meaning:

Irish (originally of County Limerick, later of Counties Cork and Kilkenny): reduced 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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