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cardiff Name Meaning and History

Welsh: habitational name from the Welsh city Cardiff in Glamorgan, named with Welsh caer ‘fort’ + the genitive singular of the river name Taf, from Welsh taf ‘water’, ‘stream’.

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cardiff Family Facts

Distribution of cardiff Families in the US in 1920
Number of cardiff families
 14-26
 5-13
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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