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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German and Dutch : from an Old Frisian personal name Douwo.
  • South German : from Davo, a short form of the personal name Tavold, formed with Old High German dau ‘custom’, ‘tradition’.
  • Vietnamese : unexplained.

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