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Nobles in:England (England)
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Dodd
English
Early records reveal that this surname originated in England. Duddy is a variation of the name Dodd. Written documents are an easy prey for the natural destructiveness of time; thus it is often no mean task to discover records of some of the earliest individuals who used a particular surname. In the case of William Dod, however, meticulous investigations have yielded most interesting results: The earliest written reference to someone with this surname pertains to a certain Willelmus Dodde, mentioned in a document from the 13th century. The coat of arms displayed on this page was that of one branch of the Dodd family; it was used by Hugo Dod. Centuries ago, many families displayed mottoes - concise phrases which might express anything from a pun on the name to a religious or philosophical guiding principle - on scrolls, or below their coat of arms. The motto used by the Dodd family was "In copia cautus": "Careful amid plenty". Probably one of the first individuals bearing the surname Dodd to emigrate to America was a certain Daniel Dod, who at age 18 sailed from Port of London in the year 1774. Other related surnames which share the same roots are Dodde, Dudda and Dudde. There are approximately 30,000 people living in the United States today who have this surname. ...
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Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
