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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern English : habitational name from any of various places in the Scottish Borders and Cumbria called Liddel, from the Old English river name Hl̄de, meaning ‘loud’, + Old English dæl ‘valley’.

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