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The kidd Surname

kidd Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: from a medieval personal name Kid, a variant of Kit, a pet form of Christopher.
  2. English: from Middle English kid(e) ‘young goat’, hence a nickname for a frisky person or a metonymic occupational name for a goatherd.
  3. English: metonymic occupational name for a seller of faggots, from Middle English kidde ‘faggot’ (of unknown origin).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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kidd Family Facts

Distribution of kidd Families in the US in 1920
Number of kidd families
 155-308
 52-154		 1-51
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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