Dowthwaite

English

Alternative forms

• Douthat, Douthett, Douthit, Douthitt

Etymology

Habitational surname from a lost place in Yorkshire, from the Old Norse personal name Ufi + þveit (“clearing, glade”); the initial d- may come from Old French de (“of”), an element which later became fused into the surname. Compare Outhwaite.

Proper noun

Dowthwaite (plural Dowthwaites)

1. A surname from Old Norse.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dowthwaite is the 12877^th most common surname in England, belonging to 429 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dowthwaite”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 485.
• Forebears