Odell Family History
Odell Name Meaning
habitational name from a place in Bedfordshire, also
called Woodhill, from Old English wad ‘woad’ (a plant
collected for the blue dye that could be obtained from it) +
hyll ‘hill’. Compare Waddell.(O’Dell)
of the same origin as 1, but altered by folk etymology as if of Irish
origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
685,404
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Name Distribution of Odell Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Odell families
 375 - 748  126 - 374 |
 1 - 125  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Odell families
|
3 - 4 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Odell Family Origin
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