The Judde Family Name

Arms linked to Judd and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Meaning of the name

Seen on a gravestone or a census line, Judde usually leads back to Judd. The name is generally explained as “from Jordan”.

The extra “e” in Judde is a spelling habit rather than a different name. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. From 1891 to 2000, 170 births in France were registered under Judde. Births ran at 7 in 1891–1900 and 8 in 1991–2000.

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