Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhlaoich
‘descendant of Dubhlaoch’, a personal name composed of the
elements dubh ‘black’ (see Duff) + laoch
‘champion’, ‘hero’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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