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cadmus Name Meaning and History

Origin uncertain; probably a Dutch humanistic name taken from the Latin form of classical Greek Kadmos, name of the son of the Phoenician King Agenor, founder of Thebes, the person reputed to have introduced the alphabet to the Greeks, a mythological representation of the acquisition of the alphabet from the Phoenicians.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of cadmus Families in the US in 1920
Number of cadmus families
 39-75
 14-38		 1-13
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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