Downey
English
editEtymology
editVarious origins:
- Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dúnadhaigh (“descendant of Dúnadhach”), a personal name which derives from a diminutive form of dúnadh (“closing, securing, fastening”).
- Irish surname from a reduced form of McEldowney or Muldowney.
- Scottish habitational surname from the barony of Downie or Duny, named from Scottish Gaelic dùn (“hill”) + the locative suffix -ach.
Proper noun
editDowney (countable and uncountable, plural Downeys)
- A surname.
- A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.
- A city in Bannock County, Idaho, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Cedar County, Iowa, United States.
Derived terms
editStatistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Downey is the 1320th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 26627 individuals. Downey is most common among White (88.35%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Downey”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 485.
Categories:
- English terms derived from Irish
- English terms derived from Scottish Gaelic
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- en:Cities in California, USA
- en:Cities in the United States
- en:Places in California, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Cities in Idaho, USA
- en:Places in Idaho, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in Iowa, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Iowa, USA
- English surnames from Irish
- English surnames from Scottish Gaelic