Dove (surname)

This article is about the surname Dove. For other uses, see Dove (disambiguation).

Dove
Family name
Meaning	"swarthy" or "dark tempered"
Region of origin	Scotland
Related names	Dow, Dew, Duff, MacDuff, McDuff

Dove is a surname of Scottish Gaelic (and possibly also Irish Gaelic) origin, Anglicized from the Old Gaelic word dub (or Gaelic word dubh), meaning "dark" or "black". Its original use was in the context of a personal name, double-stemmed name, nickname or byname for a "swarthy" or "dark tempered" person. The surname Dove has several variants, including Dow, Dew, Duff, MacDuff, and McDuff. The first historical record of Dove (as "Duff") is found in 1341 in Aberdeen.

Dove is also a feminine given name.

People with the surname Dove include:

• Arthur Dove (1880–1946), American artist
• Billie Dove (1903–1997), American actress
• Bob Dove (1921–2006), American football player
• Charlie Dove, English footballer
• Craig Dove (born 1983), English football midfielder
• Daphna Dove (born 1975), American rock singer
• Dennis Dove (born 1981), American baseball pitcher
• Dove Gregory (1837–1873), English cricketer
• Ed Dove (born 1937), American football player
• Hamisi Amani-Dove (born 1974), American football (soccer) player
• Heinrich Wilhelm Dove (1803–1879), Prussian physicist, meteorologist
• Horace Dove-Edwin (born 1967), Sierra Leonean sprinter
• Jane Thurgood-Dove, murder victim
• John Dove (d. 1664/5), an English politician during the Civil War and the Interregnum
• Jonathan Dove (born 1959), British composer of opera, choral works
• Patrick Edward Dove (1815–1873), Scotch writer
• Rita Dove (born 1952), American poet, author
• Toni Dove, American artist
• Ulysses Dove (1947–1996), American choreographer