Last Name DUDLEY

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Meaning Local: Of Dudley, a town in county Worcester.
Local: A town in Worcestershire, England, so called from the old English 'Dode-ley,' the place of the dead, a burying-ground. 'Dodelig,' in the Danish, signifies pale, death-like, mortal; so also the Dutch 'Doodelijk,' and German 'Todlich.' 'Duv-da-lethe,' in the Gaelic and Celtic, which has beea corrupted to Dudley, has the same signification.
Origin English, Jewish, Irish, Falkland

Rank 912 (2000 US census) 740 (1990 US census)
Count 34,770 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 68.68%, or 23880 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 26.99%, or 9384 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.4%, or 139 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.65%, or 226 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.69%, or 588 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.59%, or 553 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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