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Dudley

in Rhode Island

There are 49 people with the last name "Dudley" in Rhode Island.

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Ranking in Rhode Island

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Dudley 2,883
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  1. is 2,879th most common Crabtree
  2. is 2,880th most common Damon
  3. is 2,881st most common Deandrade
  4. is 2,882nd most common Delgiudice
  5. is 2,883rd most common Dudley
  6. is 2,884th most common Dumais
  7. is 2,885th most common Estevez
  8. is 2,886th most common Fontana
  9. is 2,887th most common Forand

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Dudley

Carrie, Jessie, John, Kenneth, Kristen, Leonard, Shawanna, Theresa, Allen, Charles

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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