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flood Name Meaning and History

  1. English: topographic name for someone who lived by a small stream or an intermittent spring (Old English flod(e), from flowan ‘to flow’).
  2. Anglicized form of the Welsh personal name Llwyd (see Lloyd).
  3. Irish: translation of various names correctly or erroneously associated with Gaelic tuile ‘flood’ (see Toole).

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

Distribution of flood Families in the US in 1920
Number of flood families
 289-575
 97-288		 1-96
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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