# Dowdy

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dowdy
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Dowdy.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowdy
> Source revision: 1338316869
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

**Dowdy** is a surname. Common anglicisation of the ancient [Irish surname](/source/Irish_name) Ó Dubhda *(English*: [O'Dowd](/source/O'Dowd)). Other anglicised variants are Dowd, Dawdy, Dowdy, O'Dowda and Dowds, with Doody and Duddy, found around [Killarney](/source/Killarney), where a branch of the [Connacht](/source/Connacht) family settled. All are Ó Dubhda (pronounced O Dooda) in [Irish](/source/Irish_language), the root word being "dubh" black. A quite distinct minor [sept](/source/Sept_(social)) of Ó Dubhda was located in [County Londonderry](/source/County_Londonderry).

**Dowdy** also means plain and unfashionable in style or dress. Lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby. Comparative is "dowdier", superlative "dowdiest".

## Notable people

Notable people with the surname include:

- [Adam Dowdy](/source/Adam_Dowdy) (born 1975), American baseball umpire
- [Bill Dowdy](/source/Bill_Dowdy) (1932–2017), American musician
- [Cecil Dowdy](/source/Cecil_Dowdy) (1945–2002), American football player, University of Alabama
- [David Astor Dowdy Jr.](/source/David_Astor_Dowdy_Jr.) (1933–2019), American businessman and sculptor
- [Helen Dowdy](/source/Helen_Dowdy), American actress
- Homer Dowdy (1922–2002), American writer
- [John Dowdy](/source/John_Dowdy) (1912–1995), American politician
- [Kyle Dowdy](/source/Kyle_Dowdy) (born 1993), American baseball player
- [Nancy M. Dowdy](/source/Nancy_M._Dowdy), American nuclear physicist
- [Wayne Dowdy](/source/Wayne_Dowdy) (born 1943), American politician

## See also

- [O'Dowd](/source/O'Dowd), detailed history of the Irish Gaelic clan
- [Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium](/source/Dowdy%E2%80%93Ficklen_Stadium), named after Ronald and Mary Ellen Dowdy

## References

- "The Ó Dubhda Family History" By Conor MacHale, Clan O'Dowd Historian, Inniscrone, 1990.

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Dowdy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowdy) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowdy?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.