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O dell
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Origin Of The Surname O dell
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Meaning Of The Surname O dell
From the Town by the Hill where the Wad Grows
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Interesting
Facts About
O dell
O’Dell looks as if it were a Gaelic surname, with its prefixed ‘O’ but in actual fact it is of Old English origin. It is a locational surname coming from the place Odell in Bedfordshire. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Old English ‘wad’ combined with ‘hill’. A wad was a plant that was used to dye material as it contained a blue dye in its leaves. The place Odell would have meaning next to a hill where lots of these plants grew. |
O dell Statistics
O dell is the number 1389 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 7,699 share the surname O dell in the UK.
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