Dowdeswell

English

Etymology

From the unattested Old English personal name *Dogod + -s- + wella (“well, spring, stream”).

Proper noun

Dowdeswell (countable and uncountable, plural Dowdeswells)

1. A civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England.
2. A surname from Old English.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dowdeswell is the 7767^th most common surname in England, belonging to 831 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dowdeswell”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 484.
• Forebears