Puddifoot Surname

928,396th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 284 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
England
Highest density in:
England

Puddifoot Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a nickname. -The surname is first found in Buckinghamshire It is well known there to-day.

Walter Podefat, Buckinghamshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

1755. Married — John Puddephatt, of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and Mary Bedford: St.

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Puddifoot Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England2581:215,96118,397
Scotland121:446,15118,166
Australia41:6,748,925181,100
Canada41:9,211,398321,528
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Northern Ireland11:1,845,03620,648
Japan11:127,844,29373,547
Papua New Guinea11:8,153,717181,784
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England1321:184,66215,113
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States61:8,369,781355,680

Puddifoot Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a nickname. -The surname is first found in Buckinghamshire It is well known there to-day.

Walter Podefat, Buckinghamshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

1755. Married — John Puddephatt, of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and Mary Bedford: St. George, Hanover Square.

1785. — John Breech and Mary Puddephatt: ibid.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

] (Teutonic) apparently a nickname for a Club-footed Person [ cp. Low German puddig, thick, stumpy; and + English foot, Old English fót]

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

The origin of the name of Puddephatt is also referred to under "Hertfordshire." Chesham, in Bucks, is the great home of the Puddephatts in our own time. Walter Podefat lived at "Tomb'ge," Bucks, in the 13th century (H. R.). The name is probably a corruption of.

Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy

Puddephatt is an ancient Herts and Bucks name, that at present is most numerous across the Bucks border in the neighbourhood of Chesham. It was a frequent name in Abbots Langley and in Sarratt, both in Hertfordshire, during the 16th and 17th centuries (Cus.), and it still occurs in Sarratt. In Puddifoot, also a Herts name, it possesses a modern corruption, whilst it is itself probably an altered form of Pedefer (as suggested by Cussans), an Ippolitts name in the reign of Edward III. (Cus.). The similar name of Pettipher is still found in Oxfordshire, and further reference to this subject will there be found.

Homes of Family Names in Great Britain (1890) by Henry Brougham Guppy

Puddifoot Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Puddifoot Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Puddifoot is held by more people in England than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Puddifoot.

How Common Is The Last Name Puddifoot? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 928,396th most frequently held last name on a global scale It is held by around 1 in 25,660,373 people. The last name Puddifoot occurs mostly in Europe, where 95 percent of Puddifoot live; 95 percent live in Northern Europe and 95 percent live in British Isles.

The surname Puddifoot is most common in England, where it is held by 258 people, or 1 in 215,961. In England it is most common in: Greater London, where 25 percent live, Buckinghamshire, where 11 percent live and Hampshire, where 9 percent live. Apart from England this last name exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in Scotland, where 4 percent live and Australia, where 1 percent live.

Puddifoot Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The frequency of Puddifoot has changed through the years. In England the number of people bearing the Puddifoot surname expanded 195 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in The United States it contracted 67 percent between 1880 and 2014.

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