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kidwell Name Meaning and History

English: possibly a habitational name from Kiddal in Barwick in Elmet, West Yorkshire, which is probably so named from the Old English personal name Cydda + Old English halh ‘nook or corner of land’. However, the surname occurs predominantly in Devon, suggesting another, unidentified source may be involved. Alternatively, it could be a variant of Kiddle, a topographic name for someone living by (or making his living from) a fish weir, Middle English kidel (Old French cuidel, quidel, a word of Breton origin).

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

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Distribution of kidwell Families in the US in 1920
Number of kidwell families
 58-113
 20-57		 1-19
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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