Family name origins & meanings
- English (Devon) : unexplained. It is probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place. -beare, from Old English bearu ‘grove’, is a common place-name element in Devon.
- American bearers of this name are descended from Edmund Dolbeare, a pewterer who came from Ashburton, Devon, to Boston and Salem, MA, in the late 17th century.