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hudson Name Meaning and History

English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Hudde (see Hutt 1). This surname is particularly common in Yorkshire and is also well established in Ireland.

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hudson Family Facts

Distribution of hudson Families in the US in 1920
Number of hudson families
 506-1009
 169-505
 1-168
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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