Given name & surname
Kidney
“descendant of Dubhán”
Kidney is a surname from Irish.
Original IrishÓ Dubháin
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kidney goes back to Irish Ó Dubháin, meaning “descendant of Dubhán.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Kidney as a surname developed from Ó Dubháin.
Kidney’s family of names
In English usage, Kidney as a surname developed from the Irish form Ó Dubháin.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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