Donovan

Meanings

Proper Noun

  • A male given name from surnames.
  • The Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan.

Noun

Origin

  • From Irish Ó Donndubháin "descendant of (a person named) brown + black" + donn ‘brown’, dubh ‘black’ + -án masc. diminutive suffix. The form -áin is the genitive, so ‘of brown-black’

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