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Dow name meaning

First Name
1k
in the U.S.
since 1880
Last Name
15k
in the U.S.
in 2010
Girls
Boys
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Meaning and Origin

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Origin and Meaning of Dow

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Irish
25%
English
25%
African Dutch (Afrikaans)
8%

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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Dow
A kind of vessel. See Dhow.
verb Dow
To furnish with a dower; to endow.

Etymology: F. douer. See Dower

noun Dow
shortened form of the Dow-Jones Index or Dow Jones Industrial Average; as, the Dow rose 100 points today.
Wiktionary

From Old English dugan, from Proto-Germanic *duganą.

From French douer, from Latin dōtō.

    dow was also found in the following language(s): German Low German and Manx

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    Notable Persons Named Dow

    Notable Persons Named Dow

    Dow Finsterwald

    Dow Finsterwald is a golf player.

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    Dow Constantine

    Dow Constantine is a king county executive. Dow was given the name James Dow Constantine on November 15th, 1961 in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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    Dow Hover

    He breathed his last breath in 1990.

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    Dow Travers

    Dow was born on July 8th, 1987 in Grand Cayman.

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    Dow Watters Harter

    He was most prominent from 1933 to 1943. Dow was born on January 2nd, 1885 in Akron, Ohio. He breathed his last breath on September 4th, 1971.

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    Dow H. Drukker

    His most notable accomplishments were from 1914 to 1919. Dow was born on December 9th, 1872 in Sneek. He breathed his last breath on January 24th, 1963.

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    Notable Persons With the Last Name Dow

    Notable Persons With the Last Name Dow

    Nancy Dow

    Nancy Dow is an actress and actor. Her most notable accomplishments were from 1966 to 1969. Nancy was born on July 22nd, 1936 in New York City. Nancy is also known as Nancy Aniston, Aniston, and Nancy.

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    Tony Dow

    Tony Dow is an actor, director, producer, sculptor, film director, and sculpture. His most notable accomplishments were from 1949 to present. Tony was given the name Tony Lee Dow on April 13th, 1945 in Hollywood, California, US.

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    Grace Pearl Ingalls Dow

    Grace was born on May 23rd, 1877 in Burr Oak, Iowa, U.S. She breathed her last breath on November 10th, 1941.

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    Charles Dow

    Charles Dow was a journalist. Charles was given the name Charles Henry Dow on November 6th, 1851 in Sterling, Connecticut. He left this life on December 4th, 1902.

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    Ellen Albertini Dow

    Ellen Albertini Dow was an actress and acting coach. Her career lasted from 1985 to 2013. Ellen was given the name Ellen Rose Albertini on November 16th, 1913 in , U.S. She passed away on May 4th, 2015.

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    Herbert Henry Dow

    Herbert Henry Dow was a scientist. Herbert was born on February 26th, 1866. He passed away on October 15th, 1930.

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    • Neal Dow
      Office Holder
    • Dr Unity Dow
      Minister of Education
    • Bill Dow
    • Thomas Millie Dow
    • Alex Dow
      Scientist
    • Alexander Dow
    • Clara Dow
    • Agnes Busby
    • Albert G Dow
    • Charles Dow
    • Willie Dow

    Common last names for Dow

    Common first names for Dow

    Ethnicity Distribution

    Ethnicity Dow U.S.
    █  White 83.14% 64.26%
    █  African American 9.58% 11.96%
    █  Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander 1.29% 4.85%
    █  American Indian and Alaska Native 0.78% 0.69%
    █  Two or More Ethnicities 2.00% 1.76%
    █  Hispanic or Latino 3.21% 16.26%

    Of Last Name Dow

    People with the last name Dow are most frequently White

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    Fun Facts about the name Dow

  1. How Popular is the name Dow? Dow is the 10,307th most popular name of all time. As a last name Dow was the 2,356th most popular name in 2010.
  2. How many people with the first name Dow have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2019, the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,091 babies born with the first name Dow in the United States. That's more than enough people named Dow to occupy the territory of Niue (New Zealand) with an estimated population of 1,000 (as of July 1, 2012).
  3. What year were 5 or more babies first named Dow? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1880 when it was given as a first name to 5 new born babies.
  4. When was Dow first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the first name Dow is Wednesday, February 7th, 1872.
  5. What year had the most people named Dow born? The highest recorded use of the first name Dow was in 1962 with a total of 26 babies.
  6. Random Dow Factoid: According to the 1954 U.S. Social Security Administration data, the first name Dow is not a popular baby boy's name in Ohio. Imagine that, only 5 babies in Ohio have the same name in 1954.
  7. Weird things about the name Dow: The name spelled backwards is Wod. A random rearrangement of the letters in the name (anagram) will give Owd. How do you pronounce that?
  8. How many people have the last name Dow? In 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau surveyed 15,472 people with the last name Dow.
  9. How likely are you to meet someone with the last name of Dow? If you manage to meet 100,000 people in your life, chances are that 5 of them will have Dow as their last name.
    10. Dow name meaning

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