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The hendy Surname

hendy Name Meaning and History

English (mainly West Country): nickname for a pleasant and affable man, from Middle English hende ‘courteous’, ‘kind’, ‘gentle’. Hendy was also sometimes used as a personal name in the Middle Ages and some examples of the surname may derive from this rather than from the nickname. The surname is also found in Ireland.

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Distribution of hendy Families in the US in 1920
Number of hendy families
 15-28
 6-14
 1-5
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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