Codd Family History
- Codd Name Meaning
- English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of purses and bags, from Middle English cod ‘bag’. English: nickname for a man noted for his apparent sexual prowess, from cod(piece), in Tudor times the garment worn prominently over the male genitals. English: from Middle English cod, the fish (of uncertain origin, perhaps a transferred use of 1), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or seller of these fish, or possibly as a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish in some way. Irish: variant of Cody. Irish (County Wexford): from the Anglo-Saxon personal name Cod.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 132,284 Historical Documents with Codd on Ancestry
- 50,660 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 30,837 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,747 Military Records
- 3,731 Immigration Records
- 44,309 Member Trees
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Number of Codd families
 225 - 448  76 - 224 |
 1 - 75  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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- England (51)
- Ireland (43)
- Great Britain (19)
- England;London (2)
- Ireland;Great Britain (2)
- Camington (1)
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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