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thorndike Name Meaning and History

English: topographic name for someone who lived by a defense consisting of a thorn hedge and a ditch, or a habitational name from some minor place named with Old English þorn ‘thorn bush’ + dic ‘ditch’, ‘dike’.

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

Distribution of thorndike Families in the US in 1920
Number of thorndike families
 24-46
 9-23		 1-8
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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