The codd Surname
codd Name Meaning and History
- English: metonymic occupational name for a maker of purses and bags, from Middle English cod ‘bag’.
- English: nickname for a man noted for his apparent sexual prowess, from cod(piece), in Tudor times the garment worn prominently over the male genitals.
- English: from Middle English cod, the fish (of uncertain origin, perhaps a transferred use of 1), applied as a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or seller of these fish, or possibly as a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish in some way.
- Irish: variant of Cody.
- Irish (County Wexford): from the Anglo-Saxon personal name Cod.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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