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dudley Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Irish: habitational name from Dudley in the West Midlands, named from the Old English personal name Dudda (see Dodd) + Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’.
  2. Irish (County Cork): English name adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Dubhdáleithe ‘descendant of Dubhdáleithe’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + dá ‘two’ + léithe ‘sides’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dudley Families in the US in 1920
Number of dudley families
 218-433
 73-217		 1-72
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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