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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (Yorkshire) : from a double diminutive of Codd.
  • English (Yorkshire) : from Old French ceur de lion ‘lion heart’, applied as a nickname for a brave man, or ironically for an exceptionally timorous one.

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