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. This name appears in the following lists:
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