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English
Etymology
Habitational surname from a lost place in Yorkshire, from the Old Norse personal name Ufi + þveit (“clearing, glade”); the initial d- may come from Old French de (“of”), an element which later became fused into the surname. Compare Outhwaite.
Proper noun
Dowthwaite (plural Dowthwaites)
- A surname from Old Norse.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dowthwaite is the 12877th most common surname in England, belonging to 429 individuals.
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