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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Hill of the leader

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from a place in Shropshire, so named from the Old English river name Hlūde (from hlūd ‘loud’, ‘roaring’) referring to the Teme river + hlāw ‘hill’. See also Laidlaw.
  • Dutch : from the personal name Ludolph.

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