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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Louth in Lincolnshire, so called from its position on the river Lud (Old English Hlūde, meaning ‘the loud one’).
  • Irish : when not of English origin (see 1), probably a reduced and altered form of McLeod. Compare McLouth.

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