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The kendall Surname

kendall Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from Kendal in Cumbria, recorded in 1095 as Kircabikendala ‘village with a church in the valley of the Kent river’.
  2. From an Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Cynddelw, which was borne by a famous 12th-century Welsh poet. It probably derives from a Celtic word meaning ‘exalted’, ‘high’ + delw ‘image’, ‘effigy’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The kendall name in History

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

kendall Family Facts

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Distribution of kendall Families in the US in 1920
Number of kendall families
 171-339
 58-170		 1-57
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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