Family name origins & meanings
- Americanized spelling of Polish Dobrański or Dobrzański, a habitational name for someone from a place called Dobranowice, named with Dobran, an Old Polish pet form of a personal name formed with Old Slavic dobr ‘good’, as for example Dobros{l-}aw, Dobromir, or Dobrogost.
- Czech (Dobřanský) : habitational name from a place called Dobřany.