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arundel Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from a place in West Sussex, seat of the Dukes of Norfolk, named Arundel, from Old English harhune ‘horehound’ (a plant) + dell ‘valley’.
  2. (of Norman origin): nickname for someone supposedly resembling a swallow, from Old French arondel, diminutive of arond ‘swallow’ (Latin hirundo, confused with (h)arundo ‘reed’).

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Distribution of arundel Families in the US in 1920
Number of arundel families
 11-19
 4-10		 1-3
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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William Arundel aka Billy Master shappaeye 1
MARY NEESON nee ARUNDEL tonybonsai 0
Charles Arundel-1862 Va. dsegelquist 0
William ARUNDEL Cork Ireland yburder 5
arundel nz carol quayle 6
Thos Arundel b.1560 & Death Ar Jamestown Barbara Marvin 3
Arundel Hanging Heaton/Leeds francinesmith1 0
Henry Kelita Arundel poreilly2001 0
Arundel in West Yorkshire cheralane 1
Earls of Arundel pier66 4
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