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Dudley

in North Carolina

There are 1,701 people with the last name "Dudley" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

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Dudley 618
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  1. is 614th most common Weeks
  2. is 615th most common Hoover
  3. is 616th most common Denton
  4. is 617th most common Buckner
  5. is 618th most common Dudley
  6. is 619th most common Gillespie
  7. is 620th most common Deese
  8. is 621st most common Kim
  9. is 622nd most common Lunsford

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Dudley

James, William, Michael, David, John, Mary, Robert, Anthony, Larry, Richard

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’ + dá ‘two’ + léithe ‘sides’.

FOREBEARS Thomas Dudley (1576–1653), 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 (1647–1720) was also governor of MA (1702–15).

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