Family name origins & meanings
- German : variant of Donner.
- Irish (Counties Roscommon and Leitrim) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dúnabhra, Ó Donnabhair ‘descendant of Dúnabhra’, from donn ‘brown’ + abhra ‘eyebrow’.
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