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Origin and popularity of the name TUDOR

Origin

Tudor : 1: Welsh: from the personal name Tudur a derivative of British Celtic Toutorīx literally ‘people’ + ‘king’. It has sometimes been taken as a Welsh equivalent of Latin Theodorus from Greek Theodōros ‘gift of God’ (see Theodore) for which the usual Welsh form is Tewdwr.2: Romanian and Croatian: from the personal name Tudor a variant of Teodor (see Theodore).

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Source : DAFN2 : Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, ©2022 by Patrick Hanks and Oxford University Press
FANBI : The Oxford Dictionary if Family Names in Britain and Ireland, ©2016, University of the West of England

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