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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name probably from Ludgate in London, so named from Old English ludgeat ‘back gate’, ‘postern’, or possibly from Ludgate in Kent or Lidgate in Suffolk, both named from Old English hlidgeat ‘swing gate’.

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