English: habitational name from Tydd St. Mary in Lincolnshire or
Tydd St. Giles in Cambridgeshire, named probably with an unattested
Old English word, tydd ‘shrubs’, ‘brush’, ‘wood’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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