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folds Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone who lived near a pen for animals, or an occupational name for someone who worked in one, from Middle English fold ‘pen’, ‘enclosure’ (Old English falod, fald).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of folds Families in the US in 1920
Number of folds families
 61-120
 21-60
 1-20
 0
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