The story
- Irish · derived fromÓ Dubhconna“descendant of Dubhconna”
- English todayDoheny
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dubhconna (“descendant of Dubhconna”), a personal name composed by the elements dubh (“black”) + Conna, a hypocoristic form of Colmán.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.