Purdue Name Origin and Family Crest

Purdue is how some branches of the Perdue family came to write their name. In origin, the name means “by God”. Spelled with “u” instead of “e”, Purdue shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The same family of names includes Pardew.

Purdue ranked 16,975 in the 2010 US Census, with 1,674 people answering to the name. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Purdue, so the heraldry linked to Perdue is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Purdue report, with a museum-style coat of arms.