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Early Origins of the Cudd family

The surname Cudd was first found in Northumberland where they held a family seat from ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest in 1066.

Early History of the Cudd family

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Cudd Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Cuddie, Cuddy, Cuddey, Cubbie and others.

Early Notables of the Cudd family

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Cudd Ranking

In the United States, the name Cudd is the 13,549th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Ireland Migration of the Cudd family to Ireland

Some of the Cudd family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. More information about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.


United States Cudd migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Cudd Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
  • Mary Cudd, who arrived in Virginia in 1699 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Cudd (post 1700) +

  • Haskell Cudd (1907-2007), American president and CEO of Stillwater Mill and chairman of the board until his death in December of 2007
  • Bobby Joe Cudd, American oilfield firefighter and founder of Cudd Pressure Control, one of two companies retained by the government of Kuwait to control the massive oil field fires left in the wake of the Gulf War
  • Hershel Herbert Cudd (1912-1992), American former director of the Georgia Institute of Technology's Engineering Experiment Station and later president of Amoco Chemical Company
  • Robert Cudd, American Republican politician, Delegate to Republican National Convention from Minnesota, 1972 3
  • Jonathan E. Cudd, American politician, U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, 1969 3
  • A. D. Cudd, American politician, Mayor of Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1961 3


  1. "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
  2. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
  3. The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 19) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html


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