Flood Family History

English: topographic name from Middle English flod flud(e) ‘stream’ (Old English flōd) or ‘channel gutter’ (Old English flōde) for someone who lived beside such a feature or who lived at a place so called such as Flood in Drewsteignton and Fludda in Hennock both in Devon.

Welsh: variant of Floyd an Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Llwyd (see Lloyd).

Irish: translation into English of various names correctly or erroneously associated with Gaelic tuile ‘flood’ (see Toole and Tully).