# Dowdall (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/dowdall/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Irish.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Irish |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 554 |
| US rank (2010) | 39,659 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 557,302 people |
| Change since 2000 | +19% (465 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Dowdell |

## Etymology

Irish habitational surname for someone who came from Dovedale, in Derbyshire; it can also be an Irish adaptation of the English surname Dudley.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Dowdall in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 99% |

## Similar surnames

Dowdell, Dowdle, Dudley, Dattilo, Ditullio.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.