Dowdeswell
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English
Etymology
From the unattested Old English personal name *Dogod + -s- + wella (“well, spring, stream”).
Proper noun
Dowdeswell (countable and uncountable, plural Dowdeswells)
- A civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England. [1][2]
- A surname from Old English.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dowdeswell is the 7767th most common surname in England, belonging to 831 individuals.
References
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dowdeswell”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 484.
- Forebears