Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Old English : People's meadow

Boy name variations

Dudley
Dudly
Dudlea
Dudlee
Dudleigh
Dudli
Dudlie
Dud

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a lost place in Sussex named Dudehay ‘Dudda’s enclosure (Old English hæg).
  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhda (see Dowd).

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