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caldwell Name Meaning and History

English, Scottish, and northern Irish: habitational name from any of several places in England and Scotland, variously spelled, that are named with Old English cald ‘cold’ + well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’. Caldwell in North Yorkshire is one major source of the surname; Caldwell in Renfrewshire in Scotland another.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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caldwell Family Facts

Distribution of caldwell Families in the US in 1920
Number of caldwell families
 427-851
 143-426
 1-142
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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