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moody Name Meaning and History

English and Irish: nickname for a courageous, arrogant, or foolhardy person, or one quickly moved to anger, from Middle English modie ‘impetuous’, ‘haughty’, ‘angry’ (Old English modig ‘brave’, ‘proud’, from mod ‘spirit’, ‘mind’, ‘courage’). This English name has been established in Ireland since the late 13th century.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of moody Families in the US in 1920
Number of moody families
 259-516
 87-258		 1-86
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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