Dudley

in Alabama

There are 1,067 people with the last name "Dudley" in Alabama.

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Ranking in Alabama

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Dudley 577
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  1. is 573rd most common Blevins
  2. is 574th most common Booth
  3. is 575th most common Chappell
  4. is 576th most common Harmon
  5. is 577th most common Dudley
  6. is 578th most common Gann
  7. is 579th most common Brannon
  8. is 580th most common Mcguire
  9. is 581st most common Barron

Similar Names and Nicknames

Dagley, Dagle, Diglio, Dugle, Deglow, Duclo, Dudle, Daglow, Dudla, Dudleson

Most Common First Names for Dudley

James, Patricia, David, Mary, Robert, Donna, John, Ronald, Charles, Larry



Meaning & History

English and Irish: habitational name from Dudley in the West Midlands, named from the Old English personal name Dudda (see Dodd) + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

Irish (County Cork): English name adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Dubhdáleithe ‘descendant of Dubhdáleithe’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + ‘two’ + léithe ‘sides’.

FOREBEARS Thomas Dudley (15761653), born at Northampton, England, sailed on the Arbella to Salem, MA, in 1630 with the chief men of the Massachusetts Bay Company. They first settled at Newtown. Dudley subsequently moved to Ipswich but then permanently settled at Roxbury. He was elected four times as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and as one of the two commissioners for the colony when the New England Confederation was formed in 1643. He was one of the first overseers of Harvard University, and in 1650, as governor, signed the charter for that institution. Dudley's seventh and most noted child, Joseph (16471720) was also governor of MA (170215).


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