Scardeville Surname

14,316,765th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 1 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Scardeville Surname Definition:

SCARDEVILLE: Old, or Norman French possesses many words beginning with Es. In the process of modification, we generally drop the E and retain the S, while the modem French drop the S and retain the E. Thus, the old word estranger (Latin extraneus) is on our side of the Channel ' stranger,' on the other side ' etranger.

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Scardeville Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048

Scardeville Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

SCARDEVILLE: Old, or Norman French possesses many words beginning with Es. In the process of modification, we generally drop the E and retain the S, while the modem French drop the S and retain the E. Thus, the old word estranger (Latin extraneus) is on our side of the Channel ' stranger,' on the other side ' etranger.' So I suspect that this surname is derived from Ecardenville, in the department of Eure, in Normandy-the N having been either dropped in the surname, or added in the local appellation. But the word has undergone still greater changes, having been anglicized to Skarfield, and demonized to Scare-devil! English Surn. ii. 34.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

SCAREDEVIL: A name found in the U.S. Corrupted from the name Scardeville, which Lower thinks may be from Ecardenville (perhaps originally Escardenville), dep. Ewe, Normandy.

Ludus Patronymicus (1868) by Richard Stephen Charnock

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