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cardiff Name Meaning and History

Welsh: habitational name from the Welsh city Cardiff in Glamorgan, named with Welsh caer ‘fort’ + the genitive singular of the river name Taf, from Welsh taf ‘water’, ‘stream’.

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The cardiff name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the cardiff family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of cardiff Families in the US in 1920
Number of cardiff families
 14-26
 5-13		 1-4
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 26 - Messages: 114
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CARDIFF_-_Richard_and_Catherine.JPG t42Moore 2
William Cardiff b.3/13/1792d.4/27/1883 GaryCardiff 10
William Finch Cardiff and parents redhunter007 12
Cardiff or Ardiff? Linda 1
Catherine "Kate" Elliott Cardiff Monica Archer Hollis 0
Photos of Lee CARDIFF, Vici, Oklahoma, USA Anita RADAKOVICH 1
Thomas Cardiff Arlene Cardiff 1
CARDIFF, BRIDGET/JOHN CULLEN Maureen Higgins 0
Thomas Cardiff b: ca 1580 in Sussex, England Corbet Cochran Jr. 0
Jack Cardiff judeejo_1 4
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