Släkthistoria för Dolben
Dolben Vad efternamn betyder
from Dolben in Llannefydd (Denbighs). The place-name is apparently from Welsh dôl ‘meadow’ + pen ‘head’ but ‘meadow of the head’ does not give good sense (and there is no obvious ‘head’ nearby) so it may be an alteration of dôl + wen (a feminine form of gwyn) ‘fair beautiful’ which occurs elsewhere.
Källa: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain, 2021
