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kidd Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: from a medieval personal name Kid, a variant of Kit, a pet form of Christopher.
  2. English: from Middle English kid(e) ‘young goat’, hence a nickname for a frisky person or a metonymic occupational name for a goatherd.
  3. English: metonymic occupational name for a seller of faggots, from Middle English kidde ‘faggot’ (of unknown origin).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kidd Families in the US in 1920
Number of kidd families
 155-308
 52-154		 1-51
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kidd family in ireland imeldalively1 4
Kidd, Gambill, Conway families of kentucky serenity551 1
Kidd/McDaniel lucasgenoh 2
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Esther KIDD & George NICHOLSON of Wakefield, England 1700's abl0nd2nd 0
Webb KIDD / Elizabeth WHITE tkcs 0
Kidds in Michigan jerry_betts 4
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