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Dudley Name Meaning
English and Irish: habitational name from Dudley in the West
Midlands, named from the Old English personal name Dudda (see
Dodd) + Old English leah ‘woodland clearing’.Irish (County Cork): English name adopted by bearers of Gaelic
Ó Dubhdáleithe ‘descendant of Dubhdáleithe’, a
personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ +
dá ‘two’ + léithe ‘sides’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Dudley Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dudley families
 218 - 433  73 - 217 |
 1 - 72  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Dudley families
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380 - 757 127 - 379 |
1 - 126 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dudley families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Dudley Family Origin
Dudley Immigration Information
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Dudley Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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